Othello: Critical Essays

by Kolin,Philip; Kolin,Philip

• ISBN13: 9780815335740
• ISBN10: 0815335741
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Including twenty-one groundbreaking chapters that examine one of Shakespeare's most complex tragedies.Othello: Critical Essaysexplores issues of friendship and fealty, love and betrayal, race and gender issues, and much more.

Author Biography

Philip C. Kolin is Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
General Editor's Introduction	xi
Blackness Made Visible: A Survey of Othello in Criticism, on Stage, and on Screen	1	(88)
Philip C. Kolin
The Audience's Role in Othello	89	(14)
Hugh Macrae Richmond
White Faces, Blackface: The Production of ``Race'' in Othello	103	(30)
Sujata Iyengar
Images of White Identity in Othello	133	(14)
Peter Erickson
``Words and Performances'': Roderigo and the Mixed Dramaturgy of Race and Gender in Othello	147	(22)
John R. Ford
The Curse of Cush: Othello's Judaic Ancestry	169	(20)
James R. Andreas
Relating Things to the State: ``The State'' and the Subject of Othello	189	(14)
Thomas Moisan
Venetian Ideology or Transversal Power? Iago's Motives and the Means by which Othello Falls	203	(18)
Bryan Reynolds
Joseph Fitzpatrick
Othello: Portrait of a Marriage	221	(12)
David Bevington
``Truly, an obedient lady'': Desdemona, Emilia, and the Doctrine of Obedience in Othello	233	(22)
Sara Munson Deats
Morality, Ethics and the Failure of Love in Shakespeare's Othello	255	(16)
John Gronbeck-Tedesco
Keeping Faith: Water Imagery and Religious Diversity in Othello	271	(22)
Clifford Ronan
Representing Othello: Early Modern Jury Trials and the Equitable Judgments of Tragedy	293	(32)
Nicholas Moschovakis
Othello Among the Sonnets	325	(22)
James Schiffer
The ``O'' in Othello: Tropes of Damnation and Nothingness	347	(16)
Daniel J. Vitkus
Trumpeting and ``seeled'' Eyes: A Semiotics of [Eye]conography in Othello	363	(16)
LaRue Love Sloan
``Work on my medicine'': Physiologies and Anatomies in Othello	379	(12)
Mary F. Lux
Reading Othello Backwards	391	(10)
Jay L. Halio
The Mystery of the Early Othello Texts	401	(24)
Scott McMillin
``My cue to fight'': Stage Violence in Othello	425	(16)
Francis X. Kuhn
An Interview with Kent Thompson, Artistic Director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival	441	(16)
Philip C. Kolin
Notes on the Contributors	457