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Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discusses some of the mjor themes of Shakespeare’s play, including jealousy, outcasts, racism, revenge and sex.
Video lecture by Professor Ato Quayson (Stanford University) who interprets the anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice via the framework provided by Frantz Fanon in his essay, ‘The Fact of Blackness’.
Series on Africa written and presented by Professor Ali A. Mazrui. Episode 4 traces the colonial economic legacy, the development of slavery, and European control of Africa’s natural resources, with...
Recording of the book launch event for Dr. Ruben Espinosa’s new book, Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism. A reading from the book, an analysis of Macbeth, is followed by a conversation with Dr. Kathryn...
Video podcast. Host Mitch Jeserich talks to Farah Karim-Cooper (King’s College London and Shakespeare’s Globe) about her book, The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race.
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to Dr. Patricia Akhimie and Dr. Carol Mejia LaPerle about Shakespeare’s language in realtion to race and racism.
Podcast. Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture delivered at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Elizabethan Theatre by Kim F. Hall. This lecture discusses Afrodiasporic appropriations of Othello.
Radio documentary by Kwame Kwei-Armeh tracing the life and work of nineteenth century black British actor Ira Aldridge. Undeterred by the racial hostility of the press, Aldridge pursued his acting career to...
Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project. Murray Biggs, who discusses Othello in terms of race and racism and and the possible origins of the title character in the Moroccan ambassador to the court...
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to author Farah Karim-Cooper’s new book, The Great White Bard, which explores the language of race and difference in some of Shakespeare’s plays including Titus Andronicus,...
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