The Great White Bard - Farah Karim-Cooper
The Great White Bard - Farah Karim-Cooper Professor Farah Karim-Cooper grew up loving the Bard, perhaps because Romeo and Juliet felt Pakistani to her. Combining piercing analysis of race, gender and…
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The Great White Bard - Farah Karim-Cooper
Professor Farah Karim-Cooper grew up loving the Bard, perhaps because Romeo and Juliet felt Pakistani to her. 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. But why was being white as a 'snowy dove' essential to Juliet's beauty?
But if we dare to bring Shakespeare down from his plinth, we might unveil a playwright 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. We might expand and enrich his extraordinary legacy.
We might even fall in love with him all over again.
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