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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.
List of contents
1. Darkness Made Visible: A survey of Othello in Criticism and on Stage Philip C. Kolin 2. The Audience's Role in Othello Hugh Macrae Richmond 3. White Faces, Black-Face" The Production of "Race" in Othello Sujata Iyengar 4. Images of White Identity in Othello Peter Erickson 5. 'Words and Performance": Roderigo and the Mixed Dramaturgy of Race and Gender in Othello John R. Ford 6. The Curse of Cush: Othello's Judaic Ancestry James R. Andreas 7. Relating Things to the State: "The State" and the Subject of Othello Thomas Moisan 8. Venetian Ideology or Transversal Power? Iago's Motives and the Means by which Othello Falls Bryan Reynolds & Joseph Fitzpatrick 9. Othello: Portrait of a Marriage David Bevington 10. "Truly, an Obedient Lady": Desdemona, Emilia, and the Doctrine of Obedience in Othello Sara Deats 11. Morality, Ethics, and the Failure of Love in Othello John Gronbeck-Tedesco 12. Keeping Faith: Water Imagery and Religious Diversity in Othello Clifford Ronan 13. Representing Othello: Early Modern Jury Trials and the Equitable Judgments of Tragedy Nicholas Moschovakis 14. Othello Among the Sonnets James Schiffer 15. The "O" in Othello: Tropes of Damnation and Nothingness Dabiel J. Vitkus 16. Trumpeting and "Seeled" Eyes: A Semiotics of [Eye]conography in Othello LaRue Love Sloan 17. "Work on My Medicine": Physiology and Consumption in Othello Mary Lux 18. Reading Othello Backwards Jay L. Halio 19. "The Mystery of the Early Othello Texts" Scott McMillin 20. "My Cue to Fight": Stage Violence in Othello Francis X. Kuhn 21. An Interview with Kent Thompson, Artistic Director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival Philip C. Kolin
About the author
Philip Kolin is Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the series editor of the Shakespeare Criticism series.
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.
