How many books about Shakespeare do you read a year? I average 1-2! Shakespeare scholar and Globe Theatre director Karin-Cooper explores how race is portrayed and performed in Shakespeare‘s plays. It‘s a must-read for former Lit majors!! 🎭
How many books about Shakespeare do you read a year? I average 1-2! Shakespeare scholar and Globe Theatre director Karin-Cooper explores how race is portrayed and performed in Shakespeare‘s plays. It‘s a must-read for former Lit majors!! 🎭
The Great White Bard is an astounding exploration of Shakespeare's plays. Karim-Cooper leads us fairly and firmly through various texts and play adaptations to examine Shakespeare's meaning of race, colonalism, and white supremacy.
I was most interested in Caliban, The Tempest. The author skillfully holds him as an example of misuse and misinterpretation by scrutinising both historic and contemporary interpretations/adaptations of this ⬇️⬇️