{"product_id":"9780861548095-great-white-bard","title":"The Great White Bard","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShakespeare: increasingly irrelevant or lone literary genius of the Western canon?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSHAKESPEARE: increasingly irrelevant or lone literary genius of the Western canon?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Powerful and illuminating' James Shapiro, author of \u003cem\u003e1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Baillie Gifford 'Winner of Winners' 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProfessor Farah Karim-Cooper grew up loving the Bard, perhaps because \u003cem\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/em\u003e felt Pakistani to her. But why was being white as a ‘snowy dove’ essential to Juliet’s beauty?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombining piercing analysis of race, gender and otherness in beloved plays from \u003cem\u003eOthello \u003c\/em\u003eto \u003cem\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/em\u003e with a radical reappraisal of Elizabethan London, \u003cem\u003eThe Great White Bard\u003c\/em\u003e entreats us neither to idealise nor to fossilise Shakespeare but instead to look him in the eye and reckon with the discomforts of his plays, playhouses and society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf 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. But if we dare to bring Shakespeare down from his plinth, we might unveil a playwright for the twenty-first century. We might expand and enrich his extraordinary legacy. We might even fall in love with him all over again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eTIME MAGAZINE \u003c\/em\u003eBOOK OF THE YEAR 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'\u003cstrong\u003eInsightful, passionate, piled with facts\u003c\/strong\u003e and has a warm, infectious love for theatre and Shakespeare running through every chapter.' \u003cstrong\u003eADRIAN LESTER, CBE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Dive in and\u003cstrong\u003e your whole cultural landscape will be refreshed and reframed\u003c\/strong\u003e. A challenging, riveting read,\u003cem\u003e The Great White Bard\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ereminds us how powerful the stories we tell can be\u003c\/strong\u003e on our lives.'\u003cstrong\u003e ADJOA ANDOH\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'\u003cstrong\u003eVivid\u003c\/strong\u003e… a thorough analysis but also \u003cstrong\u003ea kind of love letter\u003c\/strong\u003e… Karim-Cooper sees Shakespeare as holding a mirror to this society, with his plays interrogating live issues around race, identity and the colonial enterprise… \u003cstrong\u003eHer arguments come to feel essential and should be absorbed by every theatre director, writer, critic\u003c\/strong\u003e, interested in finding new ways into the work.’\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e GUARDIAN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'There are plenty of books on Shakespeare: but this one is different. This is \u003cstrong\u003eShakespeare as we’ve (most of us) never been willing to see him\u003c\/strong\u003e – and the works emerge from the analysis as newly complicit, powerful and yet recuperative.'\u003cstrong\u003e EMMA SMITH, AUTHOR OF \u003cem\u003ePORTABLE MAGIC\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41557610791009,"sku":"9780861548095","price":9.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29765358.jpg?v=1747904027","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780861548095-great-white-bard","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}