The Great White Bard: Shakespeare, Race and the Future by Farah Karim-Cooper

The Great White Bard: Shakespeare, Race and the Future

Farah Karim-Cooper

336 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
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Professor Farah Karim-Cooper grew up loving the Bard, perhaps because Romeo and Juliet felt Pakistani to her. But why was being white as a 'snowy dove' essential to Juliet's beauty? Combining piercing analysis of race, gender and otherness in belo...

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informative 97%
reflective 62%
challenging 56%
inspiring 27%
hopeful 10%
adventurous 2%
funny 2%

Pace

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slow 26%
fast 3%

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