Othello: The State of Play

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.>

List of contents

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

About the author

LENA COWEN ORLIN is Professor of English at Georgetown University, USA, Washington DC, and Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America.

Product details

• Authors: Lena Orlin, Lena Cowen Orlin, Prof. Lena Cowen Orlin, Professor Lena Cowen Orlin
• Assisted by: Lena Orlin (Editor), Lena Cowen Orlin (Editor), Ann Thompson (Editor)
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2014
• EAN: 9781408184561
• ISBN: 978-1-4081-8456-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: The Arden Shakespeare; Arden Shakespeare The State of Play; Arden Shakespeare; Arden Shakespeare The State of Play
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Englisch, English, Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean