SHAKESPEARE: increasingly irrelevant or lone literary genius of the Western canon? Professor 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 entreats us neither to idealise nor to fossilise Shakespeare but instead to look him in the eye and reckon with the discomforts of his plays, playhouses an The Great White Bard - Farah Karim-Cooper od authora Farah Karim-Cooper a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.