iFolger Shakespeare LibraryCapitol Hill
To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare
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.
Gehiago: Washington
First Folio 67 is shown beside a handwritten record of enslaved people from the Turner's Hall plantation. The Fitzherbert family owned the book during the slave trade era, and Henry and Emily Folger bought it in 1924. Phillis Wheatley's copybook, lent by Emory University, sits next to it.
Around that are nearly 100 objects in four chronological sections, from a map of where Black women lived and worked in Shakespeare's London to Toni Morrison's handwritten notes on her play Desdemona and a playbill for Maya Angelou's Macbeth at Wake Forest. At one point you sit down in a recreated 1950s New York living room modelled on Lorraine Hansberry's, where a television plays archival footage of Morrison and Angelou on Shakespeare.
Entry is free, with a $15 donation recommended. Walk-ins get in as capacity allows; only a timed-entry pass guarantees a slot. The audio guide, narrated by Adjoa Andoh, runs on the Bloomberg Connects app, so bring headphones. Curator Patricia Akhimie gives a talk on 7 November at 7pm.
Erredakzioaren aukera
Lehen Folioa 67 esklabo bihurtutako pertsonen zerrenda jasotzen duen landaketa-erregistro baten ondoan dago; parekatze horrek ia 100 objekturi ematen die testuingurua. Ondoren datoz Phillis Wheatleyren koadernoa, Toni Morrisonen Desdemonari buruzko oharrak eta Maya Angelouren Macbeth antzezlanaren programa.
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First Folio 67 and the plantation record
The Folger's own First Folio, once owned by the Fitzherbert family, is shown with a handwritten record of enslaved people from Turner's Hall plantation.
Phillis Wheatley's copybook
The notebook where the teenage poet copied passages she admired, lent by Emory University and shown beside a First Folio opened to the same passage.
Toni Morrison's notes on Desdemona
Her handwritten notes for the play she wrote around Shakespeare's Othello heroine.
RSC costumes by Melissa Simon-Hartman
Look for her metallic gold-winged Afrofuturist costume from the Royal Shakespeare Company's Much Ado About Nothing.
Suzanne Coley's sonnet books
Books of Shakespeare's sonnets by a local artist, with custom bindings, beadwork and embroidery.
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i"Alive in Many Hands": The American Folklife Center 50 urte betetzean ("Alive in Many Hands": The American Folklife Center at 50)
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iUraren ertzean: Truman Loween artea (Water's Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe)
National Museum of the American Indian
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- To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and ShakespeareFolger Shakespeare Library
- "Alive in Many Hands": The American Folklife Center 50 urte betetzean ("Alive in Many Hands": The American Folklife Center at 50)Shawn Miller / Library of Congress
- Uraren ertzean: Truman Loween artea (Water's Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe)Courtesy of National Museum of the American Indian
- Folger Shakespeare LibrarySer Amantio di Nicolao, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Library of CongressCarol M. Highsmith, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- National Museum of the American IndianCarol M. Highsmith / Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons, Jabari publikoa
- Rubell Museum DCAPK, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- National Air and Space Museumajay_suresh via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0