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Folger Shakespeare Library · Capitol Hill

To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare

Upcoming16 October 2026 – 2 May 2027·Free

Curated by Patricia Akhimie, some 100 photographs, playbills, diaries and costumes trace 450 years of Black women engaging Shakespeare, from Phillis Wheatley to Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison.

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