Theater

Gap-toothed Blacks laughing at Archie Lee as Baby Doll berates him. by Andrew Hamilton IN A recent essay about playwright Tennessee Williams and Greek American director Elia Kazan’s flagrantly anti-Southern motion picture Baby Doll (1956) I observed in passing that Blacks are present as furniture,…

by Andrew Hamilton FOR 250 years Shakespeare has been central to the Western literary canon. No other writer of any land or age has enjoyed popularity and renown on such a colossal and astounding scale.  Shakespeare is considered the greatest of all dramatists. Hundreds of editions of his plays have…