Shakespeare, Race and Performance
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- How do Shakespeare's familiar plays Othello and Romeo and Juliet reflect the early modern preoccupation with race and emerging concepts of colour-based racism? How do these ideas play out in early modern as well as in contemporary performance?
A lecture by Farah Karim-Cooper
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Absolutely brilliant! But truth is like a sword.
What a terrible set of comments. Shakespeare is for "all time", no less right now. His humanism throws a fantastic searchlight on identity politics and vice versa. Thanks to Farah for brilliantly summarising why examining Shakespeare and race matters.
No playright is for all time. You can't even understand Shakespeare without a translator. His work is only valid due to the constant revisions and interpretations.
For all time - and given his influence on world literature, all places.
Wonder if "racialised envy" is a rubric that's been applied to Iago?
So sad to see how this great institurion goes downhill faster and faster
Absolutely fascinating but very much seeing things through the lens and prism of the early 21st Century . Decades from now the view WILL be different as all historical perspectives are. It is a point that perhaps should have been acknowledged even if we cannot know what that future perspective will be
Looking for monsters where they don't exist.
Exactly......
All your (shakes spear) are belong to us!
Its not only boring! Its just weird. Written to "meet the nerve of time" and just absolutely artificial and twisted
I think you might benefit from reading a chapter or two from Maimonides' great work, the 'Guide for the Perplexed'.
Agreed
@@rogerlephoque3704 Smart reply for us dumb subscribers. Well done!
Why? Is racism irrelevant in Shakespeare and not to be discussed? Or is it that non-white people must not have an opinion different to the established (white) opinions?
Stumbling upon the topic of race, did the presenter also perhaps come across the exemplary Twala Theatre Company.
This is an awful lecture.
You stick to your house honey and we’ll stick to ours.
I'm giving the lecturer the benefit of the doubt....but they seem to be LBW (leg before wicket)
Would have been a more convincing thesis if Karim-Cooper had spent less time talking about herself and the culture wars and more time discussing the actual plays and their performance history.
Aaaaand UN-SUBBED.
Isn't a non-white view essential for white understanding of the issues? She has to illustrate it personally to bring home the issues so that we might all understand.
"...and can even lead to legislation."
When something is racist, you can go, look at this, she looks at definitions what others say but doesn’t produce racist material.
Boring 😴
One minute after a 52 minute video was posted, you call it boring. You really need to improve your attention span.
You need to take a little bit of your own handle and apply some introspection to the word "liberty" for you are the very antithesis of its meaning and application.
@@birgittabirgersdatter8082 I knew it was boring 30 seconds in.
@@sprsmoke "I knew it was boring 30 seconds in..." said the actress to the Bishop!
@@sprsmoke If you have that short an attention span , then why are you even listening to an academic lecture?
All the buzz words are so boring.