A Shakespeare scholar claims to have found evidence supporting a suggestion made in the 1930s that she was a madam called "Lucy Negro" or "Black Luce", who ran a notorious bawdy house in Clerkenwell.

that the mysterious “Dark Lady” of Shakespeare’s sonnets was black. “‘If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head,’” recites author Caroline Randall Williams, quoting Sonnet 130.

On Baldwin's would-be 100th birthday, the author of a Shakespeare adaptation series reflects on how the Black icon impacted her reading of the Bard Nisha Sharma is a YA and adult contemporary ...

Guess what, though: My reading is a proud Black fist! Was it racist, above all, to have never exposed me to Shakespeare in high school? To have said, in effect, Black kids like me don’t need him ...

Welles adapted Shakespeare’s text himself, significantly revising details, moving the setting from Scotland to Haiti and featuring an all-Black cast. In his staging, Welles also swapped medieval ...