Calpurnia
Americannoun
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The new adaptation gives voice to Calpurnia, Finch’s housekeeper who helped to raise his kids, Scout and Jem.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2022
The play’s power, though, resides in the dignified stoicism of its morally righteous characters, Yaegel T. Welch’s Tom and Atticus’s longtime housekeeper, Calpurnia.
From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2022
Sorkin’s script — which cuts the undergrowth of minor characters and enhances others, particularly the maid Calpurnia and Tom Robinson, the man falsely accused of rape — was the thing that really grabbed Kinnear.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2021
And the story’s most prominent black characters — Calpurnia and Tom Robinson — are allowed more opportunity in the play to voice their frustrations about racial injustice.
From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2020
Calpurnia was sitting in a haughty dignity that appeared on state occasions, and with it appeared erratic grammar.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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