User talk:Cvitiello

The page on "Race-reversed casting" that was featured on the Wikipedia frontpage (US) on July 1 makes a claim that Patrick Stewart invented the idea in a 1997 production of Othello. This is incorrect. The practice of race-reversed casting goes back much further, and this is well documented.

Here is a Google Books link to a section in the book "Othello: New Critical Essays" (Routledge: Phillip Kolin ed., p. 121) that identifies earlier productions of Othello in which the races of the cast were reversed: https://books.google.com/books?id=VTbYAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA121&lpg=PA121&dq=othello+race+reversal+production+1980&source=bl&ots=zuRqRaabJC&sig=ACfU3U36oj-oh1Lh8HknRp5VzM6m31slZA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjkn93S0qzqAhUvn-AKHVC9CjMQ6AEwAHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=othello%20race%20reversal%20production%201980&f=false

The claim that Stewart invented this idea should be removed from this page.

Cvitiello (talk) 18:17, 1 July 2020 (UTC)