Othello: Critical EssaysPhilip Kolin Including twenty-one groundbreaking chapters that examine one of Shakespeare's most complex tragedies. Othello:Critical Essays explores issues of friendship and fealty, love and betrayal, race and gender issues, and much more. |
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... reviews, and interviews—giving readers a guide to the vast amounts of research on a particular play or poem. Each volume showcases the work of leading Shakespeare scholars who participate in and extend the critical discourse on the text ...
... reviews, and interviews—giving readers a guide to the vast amounts of research on a particular play or poem. Each volume showcases the work of leading Shakespeare scholars who participate in and extend the critical discourse on the text ...
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... reviewed major critical issues, and Peter Davison's slender but valuable volume surveys various critical approaches ... Review”). Pechter notes: “Othello is the only tragedy in which the protagonist does not have the most lines to speak ...
... reviewed major critical issues, and Peter Davison's slender but valuable volume surveys various critical approaches ... Review”). Pechter notes: “Othello is the only tragedy in which the protagonist does not have the most lines to speak ...
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... review of the Moor's fortunes among the critics. For nearly 300 years, Othello enjoyed a reputation as the “noble Moor.” Dr. Johnson praised him as “magnanimous, artless, and credulous, boundless in his confidence, ardent in his ...
... review of the Moor's fortunes among the critics. For nearly 300 years, Othello enjoyed a reputation as the “noble Moor.” Dr. Johnson praised him as “magnanimous, artless, and credulous, boundless in his confidence, ardent in his ...
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... review of Ira Aldridge's Othello in England in 1846 further exemplifies the colonial prejudices that descended to Robeson. Although the reviewer for the Manchester Examiner (4 July 1846) praised Aldridge's acting, he could not forgive ...
... review of Ira Aldridge's Othello in England in 1846 further exemplifies the colonial prejudices that descended to Robeson. Although the reviewer for the Manchester Examiner (4 July 1846) praised Aldridge's acting, he could not forgive ...
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... reviewer regaled Aldridge's Othello with hyperboles: “After this Othello it would be an anticlimax to have seen an ordinary Othello again. What abandonment, passion, beauty, greatness, sense . . . A Negro from Afi'ica's Western coast ...
... reviewer regaled Aldridge's Othello with hyperboles: “After this Othello it would be an anticlimax to have seen an ordinary Othello again. What abandonment, passion, beauty, greatness, sense . . . A Negro from Afi'ica's Western coast ...
Contents
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The Audiences Role in Othello | 89 |
The Production of Race in Othello | 103 |
Images of White Identity in Othello | 133 |
Roderigo and the Mixed Dramaturgy of Race and Gender in Othello | 147 |
Othellos Judaic Ancestry | 169 |
The State and the Subject of Othello | 189 |
Venetian Ideology or Transversal Power? Iagos Motives and the Means by which Othello Falls | 203 |
Early Modern Jury Trials and the Equitable Judgments of Tragedy | 293 |
Othello Among the Sonnets | 325 |
Tropes of Damnation and Nothingness | 347 |
A Semiotics of Eyeconography in Othello | 363 |
Physiologies and Anatomies in Othello | 379 |
Reading Othello Backwards | 391 |
The Mystery of the Early Othello Texts | 401 |
Stage Violence in Othello | 425 |
Portrait of a Marriage | 221 |
Desdemona Emilia and the Doctrine of Obedience in Othello | 233 |
Morality Ethics and the Failure of Love in Shakespeares Othello | 255 |
Water Imagery and Religious Diversity in Othello | 271 |
An Interview with Kent Thompson Artistic Director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival | 441 |
Notes on the Contributors | 456 |
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