Farah Karim-Cooper argues that the Bard has a race problem. But that doesn’t mean we have to love him less.
, 2021, insurrection, reassuring the library that the mob had “no intention of damaging, trespassing, or otherwise altering your facility in anyway” during the violent events.
“The man’s dead, for goodness sake,” said Nandini Das, a professor of early modern literature and culture at the University of Oxford who has worked closely with Karim-Cooper. “I’m much more interested in the text itself, and how the text circulates in its own time and in the now, rather than worrying about the ethical and moral and ideological status of a long-dead writer, as good as he might have been.
As someone who has divided her lifetime almost evenly between the U.K. and the United States , Karim-Cooper said she sees the British resistance to examining race in Shakespeare’s work as an outgrowth of the Bard’s status as a national icon. “More work is being produced, and it’s causing anxiety among some in the White academic mainstream,” she said.
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