"After the Bard: Making Shakespeare Useful" with Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper

Join us for the annual James Edwin Savage Lecture in the Renaissance. Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper is Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. Dr. Karim-Cooper’s book, The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race (2023) was voted among the top 100 books of 2023 by Time Magazine, NPR and The New Yorker. She has published several books on Shakespeare, theatre, performance and culture, including: Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama (2006, revised ed. 2019) and The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage: Gesture, Touch and the Spectacle of Dismemberment (2016). Her most recent book, All the World’s Your Stage: Shakespeare for Today, is written specifically for children ages 9-12.