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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Critical Essays Philip Kolin. NEW CRITICAL ESSAYS EDITED BY PHILIP C. KOLIN ROUTLEDGE NEW YORK AND LONDON Published in 2002 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York OTHELLO Title Page.
Critical Essays Philip Kolin. NEW CRITICAL ESSAYS EDITED BY PHILIP C. KOLIN ROUTLEDGE NEW YORK AND LONDON Published in 2002 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York OTHELLO Title Page.
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Critical Essays Philip Kolin. Published in 2002 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York NY 10016 Published in Great Britain by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Copyright © 2002 by Philip C. Kolin Routledge is ...
Critical Essays Philip Kolin. Published in 2002 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York NY 10016 Published in Great Britain by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Copyright © 2002 by Philip C. Kolin Routledge is ...
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... York Times for 22 May 1930 ran this title: “Negro Who Kisses White Girl on London Stage Would Expect Protest in America.” In this story, Robeson was quoted as saying: “If any one does object to our [his and Peggy Ashcroft's Desdemona's] ...
... York Times for 22 May 1930 ran this title: “Negro Who Kisses White Girl on London Stage Would Expect Protest in America.” In this story, Robeson was quoted as saying: “If any one does object to our [his and Peggy Ashcroft's Desdemona's] ...
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... York Times for January 20, 1875 commented: “That . . . proud beautiful . . . dark face, to which the Eastern robe was so becoming, seemed at once to be telling its mighty story of adventure and conquest. Desdemona was not worthy of it ...
... York Times for January 20, 1875 commented: “That . . . proud beautiful . . . dark face, to which the Eastern robe was so becoming, seemed at once to be telling its mighty story of adventure and conquest. Desdemona was not worthy of it ...
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... York in 1978. As many black actors had done, Hyman received high marks for his “cool wrought performance” (Atkinson, “Othello”), though his Othello was not as powerful as critics preferred. Unfortunately, reviews of Hyman's 1957 Othello ...
... York in 1978. As many black actors had done, Hyman received high marks for his “cool wrought performance” (Atkinson, “Othello”), though his Othello was not as powerful as critics preferred. Unfortunately, reviews of Hyman's 1957 Othello ...
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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