Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Karim-Cooper, Farah

Publication

[New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2023.

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Details

Description

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

Summary

"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"--

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 > Criticism
• Race in literature
• Other (Philosophy) in literature
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Place of publication from publisher's website.
• Originally published: London : Oneworld Publications, 2023.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-318) and index.

Contents

Prologue -- 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 -- Epilogue.

Call Number

JFE 23-2896

ISBN

• 9780593489376
• 0593489373
• 9780593489383 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023026890

OCLC

1345220956

Author

Karim-Cooper, Farah, author.

Title

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

Publisher

[New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2023.

Edition

First United States edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-318) and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Karim-Cooper, Farah. Great white bard New York : Viking, 2023 9780593489383 (DLC) 2023026891

Research Call Number

JFE 23-2896