| Description |
xv, 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Routledge literary sourcebooks |
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Routledge literary sourcebooks.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Contextual overview. -- Chronology. Contemporary documents: Gli Hecatommithi (1566) / Giraldi Cinthio ; The history and description of Africa (1600) / Leo Africanus (John Leo) ; An itinerary containing his ten yeeres travell (1617) / Fynes Moryson ; Coryat's crudities (1611) / Thomas Coryat ; The Jew of Malta / Christopher Marlowe ; Selimus, emperor of the Turks (1594) / Robert Greene ; Titus Andronicus (c.1594) / William Shakespeare. -- Critical history. -- Early critical reception: A short view of tragedy (1693) / Thomas Rymer ; The plays of Shakespeare (1765) / Samuel Johnson ; 'Notes on the Tragedies' (published 1836-9) and Table talk (1835) / Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; Shakespeare: a critical study of his mind and art (1875) / Edward Dowden ; Shakespearean tragedy: lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (1904) / A.C. Bradley. -- Modern criticism: 'The Othello music' (1930) / G. Wilson Knight ; 'Iago' (1940) / E.E. Stoll ; 'Honest in Othello' (1951) / William Empson ; 'Diabolic intellect and the noble hero' (1952) / F.R. Leavis ; The masks of Othello: the search for the identity of Othello, Iago, and Desdemona by three centuries of actors and critics (1961) / Marvin Rosenberg ; 'Othello and colour prejudice' (1967) / G.K. Hunter ; 'Nothing' (1986) / Terry Eagleton ; '"And wash the Ethiop white": femininity and the monstrous in Othello' (1987) / Karen Newman ; 'Othello and the myth of Venice' (1990) / David McPherson ; '"Why should he call her whore?: defamation and Desdemona's case' (1996) / Lisa Jardine ; 'The "gross clasps of a lascivious Moor": the domestic and exotic contexts of Othello' (1998) / Andrew Hadfield. -- The work in performance: 'Othello on the English stage 1604-1754' (1994) / Virginia Mason Vaughan ; The Tatler, no. 167 (1710) / Sir Richard Steele ; 'Mr. Macready's Othello' (1816) / William Hazlitt ; Othello: a contextual history (1994) / Virginia Mason Vaughan ; 'The tragedies of love on film' (2000) / Patricia Tatspaugh ; 'Shakespeare production in England in 1989' (1991) / Stanley Wells. -- Key passages. |
| 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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Muslims in literature.
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Tragedy.
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| Added Author |
Hadfield, Andrew.
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| ISBN |
041522733X |
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9780415227339 |
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0415227348 paperback |
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9780415227346 paperback |
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