Othello

by Kolin,Philip

• ISBN13: 9780815335757
• ISBN10: 081533575X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
General Editor's Introduction	p. xi
Blackness Made Visible: A Survey of Othello in Criticism, on Stage, and on Screen	p. 1
The Audience's Role in Othello	p. 89
White Faces, Blackface: The Production of "Race" in Othello	p. 103
Images of White Identity in Othello	p. 133
"Words and Performances": Roderigo and the Mixed Dramaturgy of Race and Gender in Othello	p. 147
The Curse of Cush: Othello's Judaic Ancestry	p. 169
Relating Things to the State: "The State" and the Subject of Othello	p. 189
Venetian Ideology or Transversal Power? Iago's Motives and the Means by which Othello Falls	p. 203
Othello: Portrait of a Marriage	p. 221
"Truly, an obedient lady": Desdemona, Emilia, and the Doctrine of Obedience in Othello	p. 233
Morality, Ethics and the Failure of Love in Shakespeare's Othello	p. 255
Keeping Faith: Water Imagery and Religious Diversity in Othello	p. 271
Representing Othello: Early Modern Jury Trials and the Equitable Judgments of Tragedy	p. 293
Othello Among the Sonnets	p. 325
The "O" in Othello: Tropes of Damnation and Nothingness	p. 347
Trumpeting and "seeled" Eyes: A Semiotics of [Eye]conography in Othello	p. 363
"Work on my medicine": Physiologies and Anatomies in Othello	p. 379
Reading Othello Backwards	p. 391
The Mystery of the Early Othello Texts	p. 401
"My cue to fight": Stage Violence in Othello	p. 425
An Interview with Kent Thompson, Artistic Director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival	p. 441
Notes on the Contributors	p. 457
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