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

First United States edition.

New York : Viking, 2023.

vii, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Originally published: London : Oneworld Publications, 2023.

"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.

Online version: Karim-Cooper, Farah. Great white bard New York : Viking, 2023

English

August 23, 2023

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-310) and index.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.