Welcome to Leadership on Stage and Screen Lecture Podcast, Episode Nineteen.
Hollywood and Race
In 1972, a young Black man named Ron Stallworth joined the Colorado Springs police department. It was the final years of the Vietnam War, which disproportionately targeted the poor and minority communities…
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Welcome to Leadership on Stage and Screen Lecture Podcast, Episode Eighteen.
Civil Rights, MLK, Malcolm X, and Rodney King
When it comes to the Civil Rights movement in the United States, most people immediately think first of Martin Luther King, Jr. His charismatic style of speaking—adapted from his Baptist ministerial training—enabled him to reach out not only to his own congregation…
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The following works were used in this podcast:
Barnes, Brooks. “From Footnote to Fame in Civil Rights History (Published 2009).” The New York Times, November 25, 2009, sec. Books. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/books/26colvin.html.
Hoose, Phillip. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2009.
IMDB. “Malcolm X.”
Welcome to Leadership on Stage and Screen Lecture Podcast, Episode Seventeen.
Black Feminism, Intersectionality, and Toni Morrison
None of Shakespeare’s women are women of color… the only women who might be considered as such are mentioned only—in The Tempest, Caliban’s mother, Sycorax, and in Othello, Desdemona’s deceased maid, “Barbary.”…
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For this week’s podcast questions, use the podcast on James Baldwin’s “Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare,” available here.
This week’s podcast comes from NPR’s Terry Gross and is an interview with actor Andre Holland.
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Welcome to Leadership on Stage and Screen Lecture Podcast, Episode Sixteen.
Shakespeare’s England, Islam, and Religious Persecution
Religious conflict formed the bedrock of international relations in Shakespeare’s England, with the primary concern of the government focused on the threat of Catholic invasion or assassination throughout the reigns of both Elizabeth and James, although more the former than the latter…
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Welcome to Leadership on Stage and Screen Lecture Podcast, Episode Fifteen.
Race in Shakespeare’s England
As we have seen in both Much Ado and The Winter’s Tale, racial difference does not play much of a role in Shakespeare’s plays—with the notable exceptions of Aaron in Titus Andronicus and Othello in Othello. It’s worth noting that although Caliban in modern productions of The Tempest is often played as a Black slave, that isn’t actually a part of Shakespeare’s original text…
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Welcome to Leadership on Stage and Screen Lecture Podcast, Episode Fourteen.
Murder Most Foul
The genre of the murder mystery did not, for what it’s worth, originate with Shakespeare, although many, many of them like to quote from Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “Murder most foul,” “Out, out damned spot,” “Blood will have blood,” “murder will out,” and so on…
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Welcome to Leadership on Stage and Screen Lecture Podcast, Episode Thirteen.
Shakespeare in America
I want to talk today about the way in which Shakespeare has become not simply a touchstone of English culture, but in America. We’ve talked about Shakespeare in his own context and Shakespeare as the subject of revisions in England and the US…
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Welcome to Leadership on Stage and Screen Lecture Podcast, Episode Twelve.
Revisionism and Storytelling
We’ve talked before about the power of adaptations, of modifying an original story to a new form or of altering a story to tell something new. We’ve talked about the importance of decolonizing the plays of a dead white playwright who was wealthy enough to buy his way into the gentry…
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