The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race by Farah Karim-Cooper Globe Theatre Iron print on reverse

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flinging wide the doors of literature for all to enter and understand

A jar of the finest 'Eye of Newt' from the Witches potion-making pantry

The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race by Farah Karim-Cooper Globe Theatre Iron print on reverseProfessor 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 Juliets beauty? Combining piercing analysis of race, gender and otherness in beloved plays from Othello to The Tempest with a radical reappraisal of Elizabethan London, The Great White Bard entreats us neither to idealise nor to fossilise Shakespeare but instead to look him in the eye and