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On Wednesday, 10 August 2022 at 04:16:14 UTC+1, gggg gggg wrote:Hamlet with Yorick's skull). The blurb should have been much more open, as I'm sure the essays are, along the lines of how capable Shakespeare was, at a time when race was being constructed, of recognising, reflecting and challenging the assumptions of
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This is likely to be an excellent book but the blurb is not likely to help - opening with "going beyond Othello" when there is already an Othello on the cover. (I'd rather have seen a scene from the RSC black Julius Caesar for instance, or a black
The editor is a self-proclaimed "Othello-whisperer" with much interesting experience of how difficult "that" role is for black actors to play. Far from being the pinnacle of their Shakespearean career it is often their most disturbing role.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6TXR6RRsE4
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