The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

The Great White Bard

How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

2023 • 328 pages

This was an interesting read! I'd love to have had it in conjunction with a course or opportunity to watch the plays Karim-Cooper focuses on. I mean I guess I could do that myself with movies. But I'm not going to. I think the audience here is really like an educated layperson or college undergrad but the secret audience is the people who keep writing angry letters to Karim-Cooper in her role at the Globe theater to be like “woke liberals are ruining Shakespeare” but those people probably not going to read this.

September 1, 2023