Othello Character Studies

by Potter, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9780826494337
• ISBN10: 0826494331
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-07
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Othello is a major Shakespearean text, studied widely and often adapted for film and TV and especially challenging for a multicultural society. Othello lends itself to criticism through discussion of the major characters although this study also focuses on recent criticism's analysis of the characters as 'signifiers'. The study of the key characters takes the discussion of the text immediately into the central issues of 'otherness', gender, race and power. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Nicholas Potter is Head of the School of Humanities and Performing Arts and lectures in English at Swansea Institute, UK

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface	p. ix
Introduction: An Overview of Othello	p. 1
Introducing Othello	p. 5
Othello: A Man of Parts?	p. 25
Othello: 'Speak of me as I am'	p. 39
Iago: Character	p. 49
Iago: Sign: From Psychology to Psychoanalysis	p. 61
Iago: Sign: From Psyche to Clio	p. 77
Desdemona: Character and Sign: 'this most goodly book'	p. 89
The Importance of the Minor Characters	p. 109
Conclusion: Through the Characters to the Key Themes and Issues	p. 121
Further Reading	p. 125
Bibliography	p. 127
Index	p. 131
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