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During the past twenty years or so, Othello has become the Shakespearean tragedy that speaks most powerfully to our contemporary concerns. Focusing on race and gender (and on class, ethnicity, sexuality, and nationality), the play talks about what audiences want to talk about. Yet at the same time, as refracted through Iago, it forces us to hear what we do not want to hear; like the characters in the play, we become trapped in our own prejudicial malice and guilt.
Book Synopsis Othello and Interpretive Traditions by : Edward Pechter
Download or read book Othello and Interpretive Traditions written by Edward Pechter and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past twenty years or so, Othello has become the Shakespearean tragedy that speaks most powerfully to our contemporary concerns. Focusing on race and gender (and on class, ethnicity, sexuality, and nationality), the play talks about what audiences want to talk about. Yet at the same time, as refracted through Iago, it forces us to hear what we do not want to hear; like the characters in the play, we become trapped in our own prejudicial malice and guilt.
Othello has a long history of provoking profound emotion in its audiences and readers. This 'freeze frame' volume showcases current debates and ideas about the play's provocative effects. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to the needs of students, teachers, and researchers. Key issues and themes include: - Gender, Love, and Desire - Race, Ethnicity, and Difference - Social Relations, Status, and Ambition - Tragedy, Comedy, and Parody - Language, Expression, and Characterization All the essays offer new perspectives and combine to give readers an up-to-date understanding of what's exciting and challenging about Othello. The approach based on an individual play, unlike that of topic-based series, reflects how Shakespeare is most commonly studied and taught.
Book Synopsis Othello: The State of Play by : Lena Cowen Orlin
Download or read book Othello: The State of Play written by Lena Cowen Orlin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Othello has a long history of provoking profound emotion in its audiences and readers. This 'freeze frame' volume showcases current debates and ideas about the play's provocative effects. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to the needs of students, teachers, and researchers. Key issues and themes include: - Gender, Love, and Desire - Race, Ethnicity, and Difference - Social Relations, Status, and Ambition - Tragedy, Comedy, and Parody - Language, Expression, and Characterization All the essays offer new perspectives and combine to give readers an up-to-date understanding of what's exciting and challenging about Othello. The approach based on an individual play, unlike that of topic-based series, reflects how Shakespeare is most commonly studied and taught.
Although other Shakespeare plays offer higher body counts, more gore, and more plentiful scenes of heartbreak, Othello packs an unusually powerful affective punch, stunning us with its depiction of the swiftness and thoroughness with which love can be converted to hatred, and forcing us to confront our complicity with social and political institutions that can put all of us—but especially the most vulnerable among us—at risk. This edition features a variety of interleaved materials—from maps and manuscripts to illustrations and extended discussions of myth and politics—that provide a context for the social and cultural allusions in the play. Appendices offer excerpts from Shakespeare’s key sources and historical materials on marriage, jealousy, and the treatment of people of African descent in Renaissance England. A collaboration between Broadview Press and the Internet Shakespeare Editions project at the University of Victoria, the editions developed for this series have been comprehensively annotated and draw on the authoritative texts newly edited for the ISE. This innovative series allows readers to access extensive and reliable online resources linked to the print edition.
Book Synopsis Othello by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book Othello written by William Shakespeare and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although other Shakespeare plays offer higher body counts, more gore, and more plentiful scenes of heartbreak, Othello packs an unusually powerful affective punch, stunning us with its depiction of the swiftness and thoroughness with which love can be converted to hatred, and forcing us to confront our complicity with social and political institutions that can put all of us—but especially the most vulnerable among us—at risk. This edition features a variety of interleaved materials—from maps and manuscripts to illustrations and extended discussions of myth and politics—that provide a context for the social and cultural allusions in the play. Appendices offer excerpts from Shakespeare’s key sources and historical materials on marriage, jealousy, and the treatment of people of African descent in Renaissance England. A collaboration between Broadview Press and the Internet Shakespeare Editions project at the University of Victoria, the editions developed for this series have been comprehensively annotated and draw on the authoritative texts newly edited for the ISE. This innovative series allows readers to access extensive and reliable online resources linked to the print edition.
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Othello by : Philip C. Kolin
Download or read book Othello written by Philip C. Kolin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
With its focus on gender, power, race, sexuality, and violence, Othello is an important site for new critical approaches to the study of Shakespeare's works. Both criticism and culture are represented in this collection of recent essays which provides readers with examples of feminist, new-historicist, cultural materialist, deconstructive, and post-colonial perspectives on Othello. With discussions of recent stage and screen productions, and analysis of the use of the play in such contemporary events as the O.J. Simpson murder trial, this compelling critical volume presents a wide variety of ways of understanding the continuing significance of Shakespeare's play both in his own time and in ours.
Book Synopsis Othello by : Lena Cowen Orlin
Download or read book Othello written by Lena Cowen Orlin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-09-28 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its focus on gender, power, race, sexuality, and violence, Othello is an important site for new critical approaches to the study of Shakespeare's works. Both criticism and culture are represented in this collection of recent essays which provides readers with examples of feminist, new-historicist, cultural materialist, deconstructive, and post-colonial perspectives on Othello. With discussions of recent stage and screen productions, and analysis of the use of the play in such contemporary events as the O.J. Simpson murder trial, this compelling critical volume presents a wide variety of ways of understanding the continuing significance of Shakespeare's play both in his own time and in ours.
"I wanted an edition of Othello that had the necessary footnotes, background material, and a good selection of recent critical articles that would be accessible to students and would spark class discussions. This was it." --Deborah Montuori, Shippensburg University
Book Synopsis Othello by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book Othello written by William Shakespeare and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I wanted an edition of Othello that had the necessary footnotes, background material, and a good selection of recent critical articles that would be accessible to students and would spark class discussions. This was it." --Deborah Montuori, Shippensburg University
Shakespeare's Othello has exercised a powerful fascination over audiences for centuries with its portrayal of destructive jealousy. This study is a major exercise in the historicisation of Othello in which the author examines contemporary writings and demonstrates how they were embedded in the text of Othello: discourse about conflict between Turk and Venetian treatises on the professionalisation of England's military forces, representations of Africans and blackamoors, and narratives depicting jealous husbands. The second section traces Othello's history in England and the United States from the Restoration to the late 1980s, using illustrations where appropriate. Each chapter highlights a specific historical period, actor or production to demonstrate how and why elements from Shakespeare's text were emphasised or repressed. Othello is revealed as a significant shaper of cultural meaning.
Book Synopsis Othello by : Virginia Mason Vaughan
Download or read book Othello written by Virginia Mason Vaughan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-12-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Othello has exercised a powerful fascination over audiences for centuries with its portrayal of destructive jealousy. This study is a major exercise in the historicisation of Othello in which the author examines contemporary writings and demonstrates how they were embedded in the text of Othello: discourse about conflict between Turk and Venetian treatises on the professionalisation of England's military forces, representations of Africans and blackamoors, and narratives depicting jealous husbands. The second section traces Othello's history in England and the United States from the Restoration to the late 1980s, using illustrations where appropriate. Each chapter highlights a specific historical period, actor or production to demonstrate how and why elements from Shakespeare's text were emphasised or repressed. Othello is revealed as a significant shaper of cultural meaning.
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.
Book Synopsis Othello by : Philip Kolin
Download or read book Othello written by Philip Kolin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
James L. Calderwood is surely among the liveliest and most insightful Shakespearean critics writing today. In this book, he offers an extended meditation on Othello, employing the concept of property as a way of examining the play. According to Calderwood, property lines in Shakespeare's Venice divide women from men, black from white, outsiders from insiders, barbaric Turks from civilized Christians, land from money, and monologue from dialogue. Most of all, these lines draw a magic circle around the idealized identity of the Moor. Making use of theorists such as Bakhtin and Lacan, Calderwood demonstrates Othello's semiotics of self - as possessive self-capitalizer of an inviolate "I" and marital capitalist who tags Desdemona with a personal "mine" that helps materialize and mirror his inner value. Yet under the ministrations of Shakespeare and Iago, property dissolves the boundaries it draws between inner and outer, self and other, owner and owned. Chapters on barbarism and the evils of nobility, the status of women, the role of iterance in defining and destroying identities, and the mediating metadramatics of Iago suggest how the commercial associations of property - ownership, investment, exchange, alienation - not only inform the action of Othello but reveal its artistic properties as well.
Book Synopsis The Properties of Othello by : James L. Calderwood
Download or read book The Properties of Othello written by James L. Calderwood and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James L. Calderwood is surely among the liveliest and most insightful Shakespearean critics writing today. In this book, he offers an extended meditation on Othello, employing the concept of property as a way of examining the play. According to Calderwood, property lines in Shakespeare's Venice divide women from men, black from white, outsiders from insiders, barbaric Turks from civilized Christians, land from money, and monologue from dialogue. Most of all, these lines draw a magic circle around the idealized identity of the Moor. Making use of theorists such as Bakhtin and Lacan, Calderwood demonstrates Othello's semiotics of self - as possessive self-capitalizer of an inviolate "I" and marital capitalist who tags Desdemona with a personal "mine" that helps materialize and mirror his inner value. Yet under the ministrations of Shakespeare and Iago, property dissolves the boundaries it draws between inner and outer, self and other, owner and owned. Chapters on barbarism and the evils of nobility, the status of women, the role of iterance in defining and destroying identities, and the mediating metadramatics of Iago suggest how the commercial associations of property - ownership, investment, exchange, alienation - not only inform the action of Othello but reveal its artistic properties as well.
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, the Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies and of the year's major British performances. The theme for volume 64 is 'Shakespeare as Cultural Catalyst'. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at http://www.cambridge.org/online/shakespearesurvey. This fully searchable resource enables users to browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic, and save and bookmark their results.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare Survey: Volume 64, Shakespeare as Cultural Catalyst by : Peter Holland
Download or read book Shakespeare Survey: Volume 64, Shakespeare as Cultural Catalyst written by Peter Holland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, the Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies and of the year's major British performances. The theme for volume 64 is 'Shakespeare as Cultural Catalyst'. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at http://www.cambridge.org/online/shakespearesurvey. This fully searchable resource enables users to browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic, and save and bookmark their results.
