In this paper I explore what it means to require Shakespeare at a historically black college by looking at Adrienne Herndon's 1906 essay “Shakespeare at Atlanta University” and W. E. B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk. Despite the frequent association of Shakespeare requirements with a conservative agenda, both Herndon and Du Bois imagine possibilities for powerful politics in the performance and study of Shakespeare. Reading these two texts together suggests that teaching, studying, and performing Shakespeare might still be powerful politics at black institutions.

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“所有时代和人民的莎士比亚”：斯佩尔曼学院和亚特兰大大学中心的莎士比亚

在本文中，我通过查看 Adrienne Herndon 1906 年的文章“亚特兰大大学的莎士比亚”和 WEB Du Bois黑人之魂. 尽管莎士比亚的要求经常与保守的议程联系在一起，但赫恩登和杜波依斯都想象着在莎士比亚的表演和研究中强大政治的可能性。一起阅读这两个文本表明，在黑人机构中教授、学习和表演莎士比亚可能仍然是强大的政治。