Kishwar Desai | BBC on the mat for Di interview. Is Shakespeare getting cancelled?
Published : May 24, 2021, 12:00 am IST
Updated : May 24, 2021, 12:00 am IST
Undoubtedly, these kinds of seminars create a fresh understanding
Diana, the Princess of Wales who died in 1997, continues to rule the front pages.
“Decolonising Shakespeare”: Well, it was only a matter of time before the Bard was going to be re-examined for racism. The Globe theatre has launched a series of seminars exploring whether there was racism underlying his plays. But as many of us already know from a reading of Othello (“the Moor”) and others, that Shakespeare was writing for his times. Some speakers at the seminar did conclude that in many Shakespeare’s plays White reflected beauty and goodness, while Black meant the opposite.
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