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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786183103321

Titolo

Othello [[electronic resource] ] : new critical essays / / edited by Philip C. Kolin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2002

ISBN

1-136-53631-0

0-203-05565-9

1-283-96335-3

1-136-53624-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (457 p.)

Collana

Shakespeare criticism ; ; v. 28

Altri autori (Persone)

KolinPhilip C

Disciplina

822.3/3

Soggetti

Othello (Fictitious character)

Tragedy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; OTHELLO; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; General Editor's Introduction; Blackness Made Visible: A Survey of Othello in Criticism, on Stage, and on Screen; The Audience's Role in Othello; White Faces, Blackface: The Production of ""Race"" in Othello; Images of White Identity in Othello; ""Words and Performances"": Roderigo and the Mixed Dramaturgy of Race and Gender in Othello; The Curse of Cush: Othello's Judaic Ancestry; Relating Things to the State: ""The State"" and the Subject of Othello

Venetian Ideology or Transversal Power? Iago's Motives and the Means by which Othello FallsOthello: Portrait of a Marriage; ""Truly, an obedient lady"": Desdemona, Emilia, and the Doctrine of Obedience in Othello; Morality, Ethics and the Failure of Love in Shakespeare's Othello; Keeping Faith: Water Imagery and Religious Diversity in Othello; Representing Othello: Early Modern Jury Trials and the Equitable Judgments of Tragedy; Othello Among the Sonnets; The ""O"" in Othello: Tropes of Damnation and Nothingness; Trumpeting and ""seeled"" Eyes: A Semiotics of [Eye]conography in Othello

""Work on my medicine"": Physiologies and Anatomies in OthelloReading Othello Backwards; The Mystery of the Early Othello



Texts; ""My cue to fight"": Stage Violence in Othello; An Interview with Kent Thompson, Artistic Director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Notes on the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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.