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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... performance/staging, cultural, and/or a combination of these and other methodologies. Some volumes in the series include bibliographic analyses of a Shakespearean text to shed light on its critical history and interpretation. Interviews ...
... performance/staging, cultural, and/or a combination of these and other methodologies. Some volumes in the series include bibliographic analyses of a Shakespearean text to shed light on its critical history and interpretation. Interviews ...
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... Performance.” Readers will find information in these essays on non-English speaking productions of Shakespeare's plays as well as landmark performances in English. Editors and contributors also include photographs from productions ...
... Performance.” Readers will find information in these essays on non-English speaking productions of Shakespeare's plays as well as landmark performances in English. Editors and contributors also include photographs from productions ...
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... performance approached the catastrophe, the more uneasy the audience grew. “Swoons followed upon swoons,” reports an eyewitness. “The doors of the boxes opened and closed. People left, or when necessary, were carried out; and, according ...
... performance approached the catastrophe, the more uneasy the audience grew. “Swoons followed upon swoons,” reports an eyewitness. “The doors of the boxes opened and closed. People left, or when necessary, were carried out; and, according ...
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... performance in Baltimore, during which a soldier on guard duty, “seeing Othello . . . about to kill Desdemona, shouted: 'It will never be said that in my presence a confounded Negro has killed a white woman! ”' whereupon “he fired his ...
... performance in Baltimore, during which a soldier on guard duty, “seeing Othello . . . about to kill Desdemona, shouted: 'It will never be said that in my presence a confounded Negro has killed a white woman! ”' whereupon “he fired his ...
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... performance' in fact serve to sustain but at the same time destabilize certain literary approaches to dramatic texts” (71). Othello's “occupation” as a soldier/warrior is at the heart of many problems both character and play raise. The ...
... performance' in fact serve to sustain but at the same time destabilize certain literary approaches to dramatic texts” (71). Othello's “occupation” as a soldier/warrior is at the heart of many problems both character and play raise. The ...
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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