I Hate Hamlet | Historical Context
Shakespeare in Central Park
The theater that Andrew gives his Shakespeare performance in is New York City’s prestigious Shakespeare Festival, performed in Central Park each summer. The festival has come to be a landmark of New York’s cultural identity. The Shakespeare Festival was the idea of director and producer Joseph Papp, who, in the mid-1950s, conceived of a theater that would make classical drama accessible for all citizens. In 1956, he started the Public Theater as a mobile venture, traveling on a used truck to the five boroughs of New York with his...
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