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Dive in and your whole cultural landscape will be refreshed and reframed.' Adjoa AndohProfessor 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 Juliet's 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 entrea...

Shakespeare: increasingly irrelevant or lone literary genius of the Western canon?

A clear-eyed look at the works of Shakespeare through the lens of race, by codirector of education at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Farah Karim-CooperConsider the dead white male author. No intersection of identities could sound less equipped to address the dire racial inequality that plagues Western society. Now consider Shakespeare, the most venerated of these authors, and we have before us what seems like a cultural relic, all too easy to di...

This revised edition examines how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries dramatise the Renaissance preoccupation with cosmetics.

This revised edition examines how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries dramatise the Renaissance preoccupation with cosmetics.

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A collection of essays by leading international scholars exploring the practicalities and realities of the theatre in the early modern period.