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This second edition of Othello has a new, illustrated introduction by leading American scholar Ayanna Thompson, which addresses such key issues as race, religion and gender, as well as looking at ways in which the play has been adapted in more recent times. Othello is one of Shakespeare''s great tragedies-written in the same five-year period as Hamlet, King Lear , and Macbeth. The new introduction attends to the play''s different meanings throughout history, while articulating the historical context in which Othello was created, paying particular attention to Shakespeare''s source materials and the evidence about early modern constructions of racial and religious difference. It also explores the life of the play in different historical moments, demonstrating how meanings and performances develop, accrue, and metamorphose over time. The volume provides a rich and current resource, making this best-selling play edition ideal for today''s students at advanced school and undergraduate level.>
Table des matières
Introduction
1. Early Modern Contexts: Sources, Peoples, and Places
2. Genre
3. Sex, Love, and Objects
4.
Othello and Scholarly Debates;
5.
Othello Onstage, Part 1: Stage Histories
6.
Othello Onstage, Part 2: Black Actors, White Actresses
7.
Othello Onstage, Part 3:
Othello in the World
8.
Othello: Restaged/Rewritten;
OthelloAppendices
Bibliography
Index
A propos de l'auteur
Ayanna Thompson is Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University, USA. She is the author of Blackface (Bloomsbury, 2021), Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Sellars (The Arden Shakespeare, 2018), Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach (The Arden Shakespeare, 2016), Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America (2011) and Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage (2008).William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time.
