African Americans and Shakespeare
b'"Freedom, high-day! High-day, freedom! Freedom, high-day, freedom!" \\n\\u2014THE TEMPEST(2.2.192-193)\\n\\nIn this second of two podcasts on Shakespeare and the African American experience, "Freedom, Hey-Day! Hey-Day, Freedom!" examines some of the many ways\\u2014including, but not limited to, performance\\u2014that black Americans have encountered, responded to, taken ownership of, and sometimes turned away from Shakespeare\'s words.\\n\\nRebecca Sheir, host of the Shakespeare Unlimited series, narrates this expansive, interview-filled look at the intersection between African American life and Shakespeare, from stage productions to personal and academic encounters with the texts.\\n\\nKim Hall is a professor of English at Barnard College.\\n\\nCaleen Sinnette Jennings is a professor of theater at American University in Washington, DC.\\n\\nBernth Lindfors is professor emeritus of history at the University of Texas.\\n\\nFrancesca Royster is a professor of English at DePaul University.\\n\\nShane White is a professor of history at the University of Sydney in Australia.\\n\\n--------------------\\nFrom the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series. \\xa9 Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved.\\n\\nProduced for the Folger Shakespeare Library by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the associate producer. Edited by Gail Kern Paster and Esther Ferington.\\n\\nWe had help gathering material for the Shakespeare Unlimited series from Esther French. We also had help from Britta Greene and Anne Marie Baldonado at Fresh Air with Terry Gross, who gave us their 1987 recording of August Wilson.\\n\\nOriginal music composed and arranged by Lenny Williams.\\n\\nThe title of this episode uses an alternate spelling ("hey-day") in quoting Caliban\'s exclamation; it is "high-day" in the Folger Digital Texts edition of THE TEMPEST.'