The Great White Bard Audiobook Libro.fm

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As we witness monuments of white Western history fall many are asking how is Shakespeare still relevant

Professor Farah KarimCooper 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 twentyfirst 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 fromAntony and CleopatratoThe Tempestwith a radical reappraisal of Elizabethan LondonThe Great White Bardasks 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