Mora's Reviews > The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

fun fact, this is the 65th and final shakespeare criticism book on my and sara's ultimate shakespeare ranking powerpoint. at this point it's 50% shitpost 50% annotated bibliography. this started as a fun procrastination project and instead we've finally made ourselves stop an entire year and 395 slides and 65 entire books of academic literature later. we simply underestimated the combined power of "aspiring shakespeare phd" & "guy with a decade-long shakespeare obsession". (i will admit that the vast majority of the criticism books were sara, but we also talk about 30-odd retellings and at least 10 productions and those were all me. we balance out 😌). anyway if you're writing, like, a masters thesis on philosophy and shakespeare, we've got you covered on sources 💀 (joke. probably.)

anyway, i don't have a ton to say about this one - it didn't offer much new to me in terms of analysis, even though it touched on on a few plays that aren't normally thought about in terms of race (eg romeo and juliet). the author did give a lot of interesting historical context and details that i did not know! and it had an audiobook, which i am always so happy to encounter because so little shakespeare criticism does but it makes it so much easier for me. (author read her own book. i appreciate you dr karim-cooper)