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It's a little past afternoon but I'll be carrying on with discussion about Shakespeare, Prac Crit, and other exciting things going on in Cambridge! #EFLdecolonise
Ian shared some really excellent resources regarding examinations of race and culture in Shakespeare's plays several weeks back. These questions are often overlooked but are crucial to the the dramatic action of many of Shakespeare's works.
Questions of race and xenophobia feature heavily in such plays as Othello, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra.
Hi everyone! My name's Ian Wang, I'm a second-year English student here at Cambridge, and I'm the first of a series of students who are taking over the Library's social media this term to talk about decolonising the curriculum.
Since it's Shakespeare term at the moment, I thought I'd talk about postcolonial approaches to Shakespeare. When I went through Shakespeare term last year, one of the things that frustrated me was the near-total absence of postcolonial approaches in the teaching material.
Aside from a cursory nod in a reading list or a lecture, hardly anyone in the faculty, students and academics alike, seemed to want to engage with Shakespeare's presentation of race and otherness, even in plays like Othello or The Tempest where those issues loom large.
