Ep. 296 Gatekeeping Around Shakespeare with Farah Karim-Cooper
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Author and professor Farah Karim-Cooper joins The Stacks to talk about her book The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking about Race. Farah reveals how she came to be a Shakespeare and race scholar, and how her work has been received thus far. We also discuss her favorite plays by Shakespeare, and the ways in which his legacy doesn't match up with who he was in his life.
The Stacks Book Club selection for December is Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. We will discuss the book on December 27th with Farah Karim-Cooper.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host Tracy Thomas and I am thrilled to finally announce that we are going to talk |
| 0:17.3 | about William Shakespeare on this podcast. |
| 0:20.8 | Our guest today is Farah Cream Cooper, a professor of Shakespeare studies at |
| 0:24.8 | King's College London and the co-director of education at Shakespeare's Globe. |
| 0:29.2 | Her book is The Great White Bard, How to Love Shakespeare while talking about race. |
| 0:34.1 | And the book analyzes Shakespeare's plays through the lens of race by plumbing his work for a |
| 0:38.4 | deeper, more complex understanding in modern times. |
| 0:41.6 | As you all know, I love Shakespeare and I am thrilled to finally give |
| 0:45.7 | his work some serious consideration on the podcast. Today we talk about why |
| 0:50.0 | Farah wanted to dedicate her life's work to Shakespeare, her favorite and |
| 0:53.8 | least favorite of his plays, and which one she would assign to high school |
| 0:57.5 | students. Farah will return on December 27th for the Stax Book Club |
| 1:01.5 | episode where we will discuss Romeo and Juliet, which I'm sure you |
| 1:06.1 | know is arguably one of Shakespeare's most well-known and beloved plays. |
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| 1:46.7 | Shout out to our newest members of the Staxpack, Mark X, Alexis Johnson, Malek Gertes, Kadezia Nudoy and Claire Nuchturn. |
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