Lucy Negro, Redux: The Bard, a Book, and a Ballet

Lucy Negro, Redux, uses the lens of Shakespeare’s “Dark Lady” sonnets to explore the way questions about and desire for the black female body have evolved over time, from Elizabethan England to the Jim Crow South to the present day. Equally interested in the sensual and the serious, the erotic and the academic, this collection experiments with form, dialect, persona, and voice. Ultimately a hybrid document, Lucy Negro Redux harnesses blues poetry, deconstructed sonnets, historical documents and lyric essays to tell the challenging, many-faceted story of the Dark Lady, her Shakespeare, and their real and imagined milieu. Inspired by the book, The Nashville Ballet will premiere “Lucy Negro Redux,” an original ballet conceived and choreographed by Artistic Director & CEO, Paul Vasterling, in February 2019.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Williams, Caroline Randall
Published: 03/12/2019
Publisher: Third Man Books
ISBN: 9780997457827
Pages: 119
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.50d