Of course, this blog amazing and the work you do is awesome! I have to do a research term paper this semester for a theatre history class on theatre from Grecian to Elizabethan periods. I would like to do a research paper on Black people/POC, and I know you specialize in art, but do you have information on POC in theatre? It’d be really helpful if you have ANY information. Thanks!

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medievalpoc:

Thank you!And, absolutely!

History of Black and Asian Performance form the Victoria and Albert Museum (series of articles) is a fantastic place to start…fair warning, you’re definitely going to have to refine your topic:

Here is a series of downloadable PDFs from the V&A.

Here is some further reading on this topic:

  • Alexander, Catherine M.S., and Stanley Wells, eds. Shakespeare and Race,. Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  • Banham, Martin, and others, eds.  African Theatre: Playwrights & Politics.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
  • Banham, Martin, and others, eds. The Cambridge Companion to African and Caribbean Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  • Bean, Annemarie, ed.  A Sourcebook of African-American Performance: Plays, People, Movements. London: Routledge, 1999.
  • Bourne, Stephen.  Black in the British Frame: The Black Experience in British Film and Television. 2nd edn. London: Continuum, 2001.
  • Brandon, James R., ed. The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • Croft, Susan, and others. Black and Asian Performance at the Theatre Museum: A User’s Guide. London: V&A Theatre Museum, 2003.
  • Donnell, Alison, ed. Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. London: Routledge, 2002.
  • Harris, Roxy, and Sarah White, eds. Changing Britannia: Life Experience with Britain. London: New Beacon, 1999.
  • Harrison, Paul Carter, and others, ed. Black Theatre: Ritual Performance in the Black Diaspora. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.
  • Layiwola, Dele, ed. African Theatre in Performance: A Festschrift in Honour of Martin Banham. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic, 2000.
  • Lindfors, Bernth, ed. Africans on Stage: Studies in Ethnological Business. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
  • Tompsett, A. Ruth, ed. Black Theatre in Britain. in ’Performing Arts International’. 1996, vol. I, part 2

Here’s a link to all posts on Medievalpoc tagged “Theater”.

Here’s a link to Disabusing-Common-Notions, which deals specifically with people of color in European Drama and Theater.

Here is a Masterpost of specific works you can look into from that blog.

Here’s a post about the work of Wole Soyinka, whose work involves analysis of Ancient Greek, Yoruba, and Italian Theater.