The great white bard : how to love Shakespeare while talking about race
Book |
First United States edition. |
Viking,
New York :
2023.
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About
"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 aShakespeare 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 othernessin 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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Details
- ISBN: 9780593489376
- ISBN: 0593489373
- Physical Description: vii, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered plates : illustrations (chiefly color), photographs ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First United States edition.
- Publisher: New York : Viking, 2023.
- Copyright: ℗♭2023.
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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-318) and index.
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Formatted Contents Note:
The making of a great White bard -- Barbarous spectacle -- Mythologising the tawny queen -- Model minority -- Staging hate -- Shakespeare's White settler -- Tragedy and interracial poetry -- Anti-Black comedy.