Farah Karim-Cooper on The Great White Bard
Shakespeare Unlimited
Farah Karim-Cooper on The Great White Bard
Can we love Shakespeare and be antiracist? Farah Karim-Cooper’s new book explores the language of race and difference in plays such as Antony and Cleopatra, Titus Andronicus, and The Tempest.
Black Lives Matter in Titus Andronicus
Shakespeare Unlimited
Black Lives Matter in Titus Andronicus
What does it mean to read a play like Titus Andronicus with questions of race in mind? Scholar David Sterling Brown, who has written extensively about that play, discusses the ways that such a reading reveals an entire dimension of racial imagery and racial violence.