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The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

Farah Karim-Cooper

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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.

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ISBN10:: 0593489373

ISBN13:: 9780593489376

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The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

Farah Karim-Cooper

4.06/5 (415 ratings)

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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.

Format:

Pages:: 328 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:

Language:

ISBN10:: 0593489373

ISBN13:: 9780593489376

kindle Asin:: B0BDD9FPD2

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