Bibliograph

The great white bard, how to love Shakespeare while talking about race, Farah Karim-Cooper

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Label

The great white bard, how to love Shakespeare while talking about race, Farah Karim-Cooper

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-310) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The great white bard

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1345220956

Responsibility statement

Farah Karim-Cooper

Sub title

how to love Shakespeare while talking about race

Summary

"As we witness monuments of white Western history fall, many are asking how is Shakespeare still relevant? Professor Farah Karim-Cooper has dedicated her career to the Bard, which is why she wants to take the playwright down from his pedestal to unveil a Shakespeare for the twenty-first century. If we persist in reading Shakespeare as representative of only one group, as the very pinnacle of the white Western canon, then he will truly be in peril. Combining piercing analysis of race, gender and otherness in famous plays from Antony and Cleopatra to The Tempest with a radical reappraisal of Elizabethan London, The Great White Bard asks us neither to idealize nor bury Shakespeare but instead to look him in the eye and reckon with the discomforts of his plays, playhouses and society. In inviting new perspectives and interpretations, we may yet prolong and enrich his extraordinary legacy"--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

adult

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