We Ask Literature Professor Ayanna Thompson "What Would Shakespeare Say?"

Fred Lawrence, Secretary and CEO of the Phi Beta Kappa Society , welcomes professor Ayanna Thompson . She specializes in Renaissance drama and issues of race in performance. She discusses the universality of Shakespeare while honing in on how he would have reacted to racialized readings of his work. Would he recognize that race plays a role in his plays? Would he agree with Thompson that one of his characters delivers "the first Black-Power speech in English"? What would he think of "Hamilton" and its non-traditional casting? These and other fascinating questions make for a memorable conversation with one of the country's premiere Shakespeare scholars.

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We Ask Literature Professor Ayanna Thompson "What Would Shakespeare Say?" is an episode from Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa by LWC.

This episode is 24:37 long.

This episode was published on Oct 22, 2018.

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