A review by plaidpladd
The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race by Farah Karim-Cooper

informative inspiring

5.0

A super interesting and nuanced study of race in Shakespeare--both with close readings of the plays themselves AND, even more interesting to me, how they have been staged, studied, and handled in different time periods. Very well-researched but also accessibly written, this made me think about some plays I'm very familiar with in a different way and also taught me a lot I didn't know about the history of race relations in his time period. Also love all the reviews of people Big Mad at the very suggestion that a white dude in the 1500s could possibly have some racist ideas lol