| Description |
ix, 269 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
New casebooks |
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New casebooks (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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| Note |
"Contemporary critical essays"--Cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-258) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Lena Cowen Orlin -- 'Let it be hid': the pornographic aesthetic of Shakespeare's Othello / Lynda E. Boose -- Cultural materialism, Othello and the politics of plausibility / Alan Sinfield -- Charivari and the comedy of abjection in Othello / Michael D. Bristol -- Impertinent trifling: Desdemona's handkerchief / Harry Berger, Jr. -- Brothers of the state: Othello, bureaucracy and epistemological crisis / Elizabeth Hanson -- Othello on trial / Emily C. Bartels -- Othello's identity, postcolonial theory and contemporary African rewritings of Othello / Jyotsna Singh -- Race-ing Othello: re-engendering white-out / Barbara Hodgdon -- Black and white, and dread all over: the Shakespeare theatre's 'photonegative' Othello and the body of Desdemona / Denise Albanese. |
| Summary |
This collection of recent essays provides readers with examples of feminist, new-historicist, cultural materialist, deconstructive, and post-colonial criticism of Othello. Together they show how Shakespeare's play continues to signify in popular culture as well as in critical history. The volume includes a helpful introduction on critical approaches to Shakespeare and a guide to further reading. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello.
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Othello (Fictitious character)
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Interracial marriage in literature.
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Jealousy in literature.
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Tragedy.
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| Added Author |
Orlin, Lena Cowen.
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| ISBN |
0333633563 |
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9780333633564 |
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0333633571 paperback |
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9780333633571 paperback |
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