Othello: The State Of Play (arden Shakespeare 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. FC Half title The Arden Shakespeare State of Play Series Title Copyright Contents Series Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 Lena Cowen Orlin 1 Othello, Theatre Boundaries, and Audience Cognition Laurie Maguire 2 ‘All’s One’: Cinthio, Othello, and A Yorkshire Tragedy Lois Potter 3 ‘Speak[ing] Parrot’ and Ovidian Echoes in Othello: Recontextualizing Black Speech in the Global Re 4 Othello’s Black Handkerchief Ian Smith 5 Two Faced: The Problem of Othello’s Visage 121 Ambereen Dadabhoy 6 Eloquent Barbarians: Othello and the Critical Potential of Passionate Character 149 Lynn Enterline 7 Making Ambition Virtue? Othello, Small Wars, and Martial Profession 177 Ja mes Siemon 8 Othello’s Consummation 203 David Schalkwyk 9 Othello’s Double Diction 235 Robert N. Watson 10 Shakespeare’s Nobody 257 Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld Index "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 continuing study"-- Información del editor "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 continuing study"-- Provided by publisher The essays in this volume are based in scrupulous close reading, and are historically informed and theoretically sophisticated, taking 'Othello' in new directions and giving students a wide range of routes into the play for their continung study.