Can we love Shakespeare and be antiracist? Farah Karim-Cooper’s new book explores the language of race and difference in plays such as Antony and Cleopatra, Titus Andronicus, and The Tempest.
John Adams Gives Antony and Cleopatra the Operatic Treatment
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Adams talks with host Barbara Bogaev about how he turned a five-act play into a two-act opera—which scenes got the hook, new lines written in the style of the Bard, and what Shakespeare may have thought of the play’s characters.
1606 was a critical year for Shakespeare, the year in which he wrote King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. It was also a time in which James I faced internal political challenges that threatened to tear England apart.
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