Annual Lecture 2023: Staging Race in Shakespeare’s Theatres

farah karim cooper

 

Public Lecture 2023 with Prof Farah Karim Cooper

Staging Race in Shakespeare’s Theatres

 

Wednesday 26 April 2023

4.00pm - 5.00pm

Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad, Exeter College (Walton Street site) 

Oxford, OX1 2HE

 

Booking required please click here

 

This public lecture will explore the staging of race in Shakespearean theatre in the early modern period and consider the role theatre historiography has played in marginalising the formation of race within the study of historical performance. It will ask what role decolonisation has to play in our approach to theatre history and to what extent contemporary performance and casting practices is impacted by the stories we tell about the past.

 

Professor Farah Karim-Cooper is a Humanities Cultural Programme Visiting Fellow for 2022-2023.