Professor David Peimer
Image of the Arab in Shakespeare
Summary
While Shakespeare’s portrayal of Shylock is well known, this talk explores how he depicted Arab characters (Moors), like Othello in “Othello”, Aaron in “Titus Andronicus” and Caliban in “The Tempest.”
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.