The reopened Folger Shakespeare Library aims to bring a wider audience to the world's biggest collection of the Bard's printed works When Owen Dodson cast Earle Hyman as Hamlet in a production at Howard University, one of America's historically Black colleges and universities, they sought a meeting with the British actor John Gielgud, who happened to be touring Washington at the time. Racial segregation laws decreed …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PM on June 23, 2024