Overview
Character Name
Papa Shakespeare
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Mature Adult, Elderly
Role Size
Supporting
Time & Place
New York City, 1821
Analysis
Papa Shakespeare is the oldest and most sage member of the African Theatre Company. He first met Billy (the company manager) when they were both working the sugar cane fields in the West Indies. He is a former slave, and remembers Africa, where he was a griot (a poet,
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