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Shakespeare and African American Theater

Shakespeare and African American Theater

Duberman, Martin B. Paul Robeson. New York: Knopf, 1988.

Hill, Errol. Shakespeare in Sable. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984.

Marshall, Herbert, and Mildred Stock. Ira Aldridge: the Negro Tragedian. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1993.

McAllister, Marvin. White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour: William Brown’s African and American Theatre. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Peterson, Bernard, ed. Profiles of African American Stage Performers and Theatre People, 1816–1960. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.

Robeson, Eslanda Goode. Paul Robeson, Negro. New York: Harper, 1930.

White, Shane. Stories of Freedom in Black New York. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

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