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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... identifying the main critical issues and problems the play (or poem) has raised, charting the critical trends in looking at the work over the centuries, and assessing the critical discourse that has linked the play or poem to various ...
... identifying the main critical issues and problems the play (or poem) has raised, charting the critical trends in looking at the work over the centuries, and assessing the critical discourse that has linked the play or poem to various ...
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... identification and its suprising subsequent discomfirmation, but a diminshed Othello seems a better fit with contemporary taste. (Othello, 215-16, note 40) In academic terms, an abject Othello becomes the basis for solidarity with the ...
... identification and its suprising subsequent discomfirmation, but a diminshed Othello seems a better fit with contemporary taste. (Othello, 215-16, note 40) In academic terms, an abject Othello becomes the basis for solidarity with the ...
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... identified as both the problem and the solution by critics. Pechter isolates the basic conflict Desdemona raises as it is manifested in the murder scene and her compliance (or lack thereof) in her own tragedy: “This question focuses on ...
... identified as both the problem and the solution by critics. Pechter isolates the basic conflict Desdemona raises as it is manifested in the murder scene and her compliance (or lack thereof) in her own tragedy: “This question focuses on ...
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... identified as many roles for Iago to play as he concocts motives to support them. Much critical attention has centered on who Iago is in the world of the play, situating him politically, socially, and domestically. In fact, any survey ...
... identified as many roles for Iago to play as he concocts motives to support them. Much critical attention has centered on who Iago is in the world of the play, situating him politically, socially, and domestically. In fact, any survey ...
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... identified Iago as a shaman because of his doctoring, his cures and his diseases. Philip C. Kolin has situated Iago within the tradition of antidoctors in Renaissance drama (Elizabethan Stage Doctor). One of Iago's most fruitful roles ...
... identified Iago as a shaman because of his doctoring, his cures and his diseases. Philip C. Kolin has situated Iago within the tradition of antidoctors in Renaissance drama (Elizabethan Stage Doctor). One of Iago's most fruitful roles ...
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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