{"id":49465,"date":"2016-10-16T16:01:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T16:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49465"},"modified":"2016-10-16T16:01:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T16:01:10","slug":"dear-mister-shakespeare-inspired-by-othello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49465","title":{"rendered":"Dear Mister Shakespeare \u2013 inspired by Othello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d55GytFubzE\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Dear Mister Shakespeare \u2013 inspired by <\/strong><\/em><strong>Othello<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCpPo_0b7_nvXYBy6EbbMC5A\" target=\"_blank\">British Council<\/a><br \/>\n2016-10-07<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d55GytFubzE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia visual artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoebeboswell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Phoebe Boswell<\/a> has written an original piece, \u2018Dear Mister Shakespeare&#8217;, in which she questions <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Shakespeare\" target=\"_blank\">Shakespeare<\/a> on the inherent racial tensions within his writing of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Othello\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Othello<\/em><\/a> in the 1600s, and how these tensions continue to resonate today.<\/p>\n<p>The film, directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/sholaamoo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shola Amoo<\/a>, is a collage of modern black British experience, and follows Othello\u2019s (Ashley Thomas aka <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bashy\" target=\"_blank\">Bashy<\/a>) journey as a &#8216;man through time\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mister Shakespeare \u2013 inspired by Othello British Council 2016-10-07 Multimedia visual artist Phoebe Boswell has written an original piece, \u2018Dear Mister Shakespeare&#8217;, in which she questions Shakespeare on the inherent racial tensions within his writing of Othello in the 1600s, and how these tensions continue to resonate today. The film, directed by Shola Amoo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8,10,842],"tags":[25219,25221,25222,24828,22783,25220,11739],"class_list":["post-49465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-videos","tag-ashley-thomas","tag-bashy","tag-british-council","tag-othello","tag-phoebe-boswell","tag-shola-amoo","tag-william-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49466,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49465\/revisions\/49466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}