'Deep River Did It': Fuenteovejuna, Harlem Suitcase Theater, and the Performative Potential of Archival Marginalia

This article witnesses a performance that only happened within the archive: a partial translation of Lope de Vega's Fuenteovejuna created by African American writer Dorothy Peterson during the Harlem Renaissance. She intended for Langston Hughes to take her literal translation and rework it poe...

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Published in:Shakespeare bulletin 2024-06, Vol.42 (2), p.199-221
Main Author: Seremet, Molly Beth
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Archives & records
Black history
Collaboration
Correspondence
Essays
Fascism
Harlem Renaissance
Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)
Performance theory
Shakespeare plays
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Theater
Theater history
Translation
Translations
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