The great white bard : how to love Shakespeare while talking about race /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Karim-Cooper, Farah (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	[New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023]
Edition:	First United States edition.
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. Race in literature. Other (Philosophy) in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of 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.