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Shakespeare Past and Present: Perspectives on the Bard SOLD OUT

Farah Karim-Cooper and Chris Laoutaris Chaired by Ben Higgins

Sunday, 26 March 2023

4:00pm

1 hour

Blackwell’s bookshop

£7 - £12.50

Shakespeare scholars Professor Farah Karim-Cooper and Professor Chris Laoutaris discuss their views on Shakespeare and their very different new books about the Bard.

Karim-Cooper says in The Great White Bard: Shakespeare, Race and the Future of His Legacy that we should neither idealise nor bury Shakespeare and invites us to look with new perspectives and interpretations to prolong and enrich his legacy. She says Shakespeare’s legacy will be in peril if we only read him as representative of one group and as a pinnacle of the white Western canon. Karim-Cooper argues we should look Shakespeare in the eye and reckon with the discomfort of his plays and society of the day. Karim-Cooper is professor of Shakespeare studies at King’s College London, president of the Shakespeare Association of America and codirector of education at the Globe Theatre.

In Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio, Laoutaris looks at the making of the First Folio collection of Shakespeare’s work published seven years after his death. He looks at the personalities behind the publication and the challenges that had to be overcome. And he reveals how Shakespeare may have influenced the ways in which his own public identity would be enshrined in the First Folio. Laoutaris is a biographer, historian and poet and associate professor at the Shakespeare Institute. He is author of Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle that Gave Birth to the Globe.

Discussions are chaired by Ben Higgins, a literary critic and book historian and author of Shakespeare’s Syndicate: The First Folio, its Publishers, and the Early Modern Book Trade.

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The Telegraph Festival media partner University of Oxford European Union Supported by the Delegation of the European Union to the UK Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Oxford Mathematics Spanish Embassy The Spanish Embassy: supporters of the programme of Spanish literature and culture Cervantes Institute, London The Cervantes Institute, London Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Compassion in World Farming Pasture to Plate Oxford Business College Where learning meets opportunity: education partners of the festival Old Bank Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Old Parsonage Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Oxford Brookes University Oxford International Centre for Publishing Critchleys Accountants to the festival Confucius Institute Voltaire Foundation Felicity Bryan Associates Goldmoney Properties Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner. Celebrating 25 years in Europe in 2024 Oxford University Department for Continuing Education Jewish Book Week Partner of Oxford Literary Festival Jim Mellon Miles Young Tim and Marion Stevenson Martin and Elise Becket Smith Ian and Carol Sellars David Isaac Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Yale University Press London New College New College founded 1379 Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival. Founded 1314 Worcester College Worcester College founded 1714 Trinity College Trinity College founded 1555 Magdalen College Magdalen College founded 1458 Reuben College Reuben College founded in 2019 Pusey House Brasenose College Brasenose College founded in 1512 New Dutch Writing Human Ecology Project MACROVegan Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily Paul Bloomfield Ltd University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office The Sheldonian Theatre Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Oxford University Images Oxford University Images CAV Oxford The Litmus Partnership Schoolreaders Windrush Group The Oxford Times BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner Conference Oxford Ox in a Box OX magazine