SOURCE: “Shakespeare, Angelou, Cheney: The Administration of the Humanities in the Reagan-Bush Era,” in Rewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting Ourselves, University of California Press, 1991, pp. 111–23.
In the following excerpt, Erikson explores Angelou's remarks on Shakespeare, and their implications, challenging how they were employed by Lynne Cheney, Ronald Reagan's director of the National Endowment for the Humanities, in a report about the conflict in academia over determining the scope, nature, and value of the Western Literary Canon.
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