Instead of writing specific casting directives about the color of his skin, many of the characters in the play speak about his skin including the Duke of Venice, Iago, and Othello himself. Since there are do directives outside of the dialog to draw on, I will delve into the verse itself in an effort to determine the shade of black originally intended by the author. ...
"After the death of his stepfather, he returned to New York where he settled in Greenwich Village, and was determined to concentrate on his writing" (World Book Encyclopedia, pg. 31). ... "All thought flows, all is grace, because Baldwin is writing solely from himself, from an inner necessity, which generates a variety of approaches and an affluence of themes and variations" (Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 2, pg. 31). ... The 1948 trip to France marked the beginning of his career as an expatriate writer, and while his writing often returned to American subjects, he was based abroad f...
The term Harlem Renaissance refers to an artistic, cultural, and social growing of writing about race and the African American's place in American life during the early 1920s and 1930s. ... In the last analysis, the Harlem Renaissance ended when most of those associated with it left Harlem or stopped writing, while new young artists who appeared in the 1930s and 1940s never associated with the movement. ... "Thank You M' am- is clear about its meaning and uses dialog to explain the theme and meaning of the work. ...
