Othello: The State of Play

by Orlin, Lena; Orlin, Lena Cowen

• ISBN13: 9781408184561
• ISBN10: 1408184567
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-06-19
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Summary

A landmark collection of essays from leading international scholars offering a variety of perspectives on Othello. In recent years, work on Othello has engaged every scholarly interest: textual studies, historicism, feminism, gender and sexuality studies, critical race studies, post-colonial studies, reception studies, and more.
The essays in this volume are based in scrupulous close reading, are historically informed, are theoretically sophisticated, taking Othello in new directions and giving students a wide range of routes into the play for their continung study.

Author Biography

Lena Cowen Orlin is Professor of English at Georgetown University, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Lena Cowen Orlin;
1. Two Faced: the Problem of Othello's Visage - Ambereen Dadabhoy;
2. Eloquent Barbarians: on the Critical Potential of Passionate Character - Lynn Enterline;
3. Audience-Actor Boundaries in Othello - Laurie E. Maguire;
4. "Speak[ing] Parrot" in Othello: Recontextualizing Black Speech in the Global Renaissance
- Robert Hornback;
5. Secrets and Lies - Lois Potter;
6. Shakespeare's Nobody - Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld;
7. Lucretius and Consummation in Othello - David Schalkwyk;
8. Making Ambition Virtue? James Siemon;
9. Othello's Black Handkerchief - Ian Smith;
10. Double Diction and Othello's Dual Identity - Robert N. Watson;
Bibliography;
Index