| American Rot |
| Last Edit: lordofspeech 12:25 pm EDT 03/23/24 |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 12:23 pm EDT 03/23/24 |
| In reply to: re: Orson's Shadow - Ann 07:40 am EDT 03/23/24 |
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The history of Supreme Court Justice Tawney abd his Dred Scott decision is not as front and center in the play as I’d have wished. The bulk of the playwrighting is focussed on modern talk about whether there’s a point for currently living people to attempt to make amends for slavery, for the Dred Scott decision, etc.
But I’d say watch “What Killed Michael Brown?” And read about Dred Scott’s wife Harriet (a longer entry than Dred’s) in wikpedia. The Dred Scott story would be a great template for a Stoppard play a la Arcadia. Even though the decision went against Scott, he was subsequently granted his emancipation because of the efforts of his prior owners. And Scott himself cd not read or write but was somehow the center of this case. And his daughters were in hiding during much of the trial lest they be seized and sold. So interesting. |
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