New Haven Legend Margaret Holloway
“The Shakespeare Lady”
1951 – 2020
A Photographic Tribute
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| In 2014 Margaret and I discussed photographing her properly, performing on her stage, the steps at Yale University |
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| “Double, Double, Toil And Trouble!” – Three Witches Scene from Shakespeare’s Macbeth |
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| “Out, damned spot! What, will these hands never be clean?” – Lady Macbeth |
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| “Gods, Gods, be my witness!” – Euripides’ Medea |
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| “Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him, Horatio… a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy” – Shakespeare’s Hamlet |
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| “Where be your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table at a roar?” – Hamlet |
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| “And now, how aborr’d in my imagination it is… my gorge rises at it” – Hamlet |
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| “Where be your jibes now? Your songs? – Shakespeare’s Hamlet |
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| “Come Thunder, come Lightning of the sky, and crash upon my head!” – Euripides’ Medea |
All Photographs © Mike Franzman
But Sharing Is Enthusiastically Encouraged
These are marvelous pictures of the late Margaret Holloway. RIP.
Growing up in New haven seeing her as a child gave me hope. A black women graduating from Yale. That made us poor black girls proud. Margaret made us proud.