Shakespeare and Race Festival: Changing the conversation

Lydia Valentine
Thursday, December 1, 2022

With the return of the Globe's Shakespeare and Race Festival, researcher Lydia Valentine explains why we need to ask questions about the way we approach the discussions of racial difference in Shakespeare's texts.

Award-winning US poet Terrance Hayes gives a reading at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, where he formally kicked off the Shakespeare and Race Festival, October 2022
Award-winning US poet Terrance Hayes gives a reading at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, where he formally kicked off the Shakespeare and Race Festival, October 2022

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