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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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
- The Great White Bard by Farah Karim-Cooper
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- Globe Theatre
- Sam Wanamaker
- King John by William Shakespeare
- Ayanna Thompson
- “Unabridged: Shakespeare in The Stacks with Ayanna Thompson” (The Stacks)
- Macbeth (Sam Gold, 2022)
- Daniel Craig
- Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli, 1968)
- Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir, 1989)
- As You Like It by William Shakespeare
- Things of Darkness by Kim F. Hall
- Shakespeare Association of America
- Shakespeare and Race Festival at Globe Theatre
- Pericles by William Shakespeare
- Brietbart News
- Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro
- King Charles
- Spare by Prince Harry
- The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
- The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
- Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
- American Sniper by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
- Lions of Kandahar by Kevin Maurer, Rusty Bradley and Kevin Maurer
- Jarhead by Anthony Swofford
- Jarhead (Sam Mendes, 2005)
- Jake Gyllenhaal
- Black Hearts by Jim Frederick
- Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer
- Pat Tillman
- The Wrath to Come by Sarah Churchwell
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
- Henry VI Part 1 by William Shakespeare
- Henry VI Part 2 by William Shakespeare
- Richard III by William Shakespeare
- Richard II by William Shakespeare
- Henry V by William Shakespeare
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Loves Labours Lost by William Shakespeare
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Othello by William Shakespeare
- In the Wake by Christina Sharpe
- Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
- The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida
- The Davenports by Krystal Marquis
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
- Hamnet (Lolita Chakrabarti, 2023)
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker (audiobook)
- The Color Purple (Blitz Bazawule, 2023)
- The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg, 1986)
- The Color Purple (Gary Griffin, 2005)
- Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
- Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Globe, 2012)
- Mark Rylance
- Stephen Fry
- The Queen’s Slave Trader by Nick Hazlewood
- The Great White Bard by Farah Karim-Cooper (audiobook)
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