The great white bard : Shakespeare, race and the future
Karim-Cooper, Farah2023
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Professor Farah Karim-Cooper grew up loving the Bard, perhaps because 'Romeo and Juliet' felt Pakistani to her. But why was being white as a 'snowy dove' essential to Juliet's beauty? Combining piercing analysis of race, gender and otherness in beloved plays from 'Othello' to 'The Tempest' with a radical reappraisal of Elizabethan London, 'The Great White Bard' entreats us neither to idealise nor to fossilise Shakespeare but instead to look him in the eye and reckon with the discomforts of his plays, playhouses and society. 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. But if we dare to bring Shakespeare down from his plinth, we might unveil a playwright for the twenty-first century. We might expand and enrich his extraordinary legacy. We might even fall in love with him all over again.
Main title:
The great white bard : Shakespeare, race and the future / Farah Karim-Cooper.
Author:
Karim-Cooper, Farah, author
Imprint:
London : Oneworld, 2023.
Collation:
vii, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780861545346 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
822.33822 SHA822 SHAK
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2605324
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