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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Othello"”.
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Intersections of Race and Class in 1830s Othello Burlesques
… examine how two burlesques of Shakespeare’s Othello—Charles M. Westmacott’s Othello, the Moor of Fleet Street (1833) and Maurice M. M. G. Dowling’s Othello Travestie (1834)—contributed to discourse surrounding debate concerning the 1832 Reform Act and the 1833 Slave Emancipation Act. These …
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“Strumpet,” “Huswife,” “Whore”: Centering <em>Othello</em>’s Bianca
… I speculate on authorial intent and compare <em>Othello</em> to its contemporaries, demonstrating the differences between Bianca’s depiction and that more typical of sex workers in the period. “Unhistorical Bianca” explicates a misogynistic ritual of male homosocial bonding in <em>Othello</em> …
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Adaptations of Othello: (In)Adaptability and Transmedial Representations of Race
… of William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (c. 1601–4) across media, comparing cinematic, televisual, musical, visual art, and online adaptations, among others, in an endeavour to determine its adaptability in various periods and cultural and societal contexts, …
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Speech Behavior in Othello: The Conversations of Roderigo and Iago
… character Roderigo in William Shakespeare's play Othello is often ignored by critics. Discussion of his role, both in scholarly study and stage portrayal is extremely limited. His lines are spoken almost entirely in dialogue with Iago; he appears to be a mere tool in Iago's evil designs on Cassio …
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Courtship, Loe, and Marriage in Othello: Shakespeare's Mockery of Courtly Love
Othello is the forgery of a comedic play turned tragedy, for the play begins where the ordinary comedy would end. While many critics prefer to discuss the racial and exotic aspects of William Shakespeare's tragedy, there are several critics who focus on the role of love and the marital …
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Players in a storm: Climate and political migrants in The Tempest and Othello
… in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Othello. Using Steve Mentz’s work with water and shipwreck, Lowell Duckert’s work on water in Shakespeare, Rob Nixon’s concept “slow violence,” Patricia Fumerton’s book on vagrancy in sixteenth and seventeenth century England, and Ken Hiltner’s work …
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"Ocular Proof": Race, Religion, and Gender in The Merchant of Venice and Othello
… <em>The Merchant of Venice </em>and<em> Othello</em>. Religion and skin color, then, are the primary modes of racializing individuals in early modern England and characters in Shakespeare's works. This essay studies the context of racial difference as present in English and European …
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How Othello became black: a cultural history of Shakespeare's Moor in New York City
… relationship between William Shakespeare’s black Othello and white Desdemona has held a particular hold on the American imagination for two-hundred and fifty years. During its history on the New York stage, Shakespeare’s Othello has been a battleground for race relations and identities, which …
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"Th' offense pardons itself": Sex and the Church in <em>Othello</em> and <em>Measure for Measure</em>
… This is the context in which Shakespeare wrote Othello and Measure for Measure. In both plays, the role of the government in Cyprus or Vienna hinges upon the passions of a single authority figure. Both Angelo and Othello cause political unrest because they mismanage sexuality. In the case of …
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Living Words; Dying Flesh: The Truth and Testimonies of Desdemona in Othello and Pompilia in The Ring and the Book
… ways in which Desdemona in William Shakespeare’s Othello (1603/4) and Pompilia in Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book (1868) exemplify female characters whose testimonies highlight their souls’ salvation and demonstrate that they ultimately transcend their domestic roles. This thesis engages …
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Creating The Role Of Iago: An Analysis Of The Pre-Rehearsal Process
… This thesis is a character study of Iago, from Othello. The first chapter will explore a textual analysis of Othello. The second chapter is an exploration of Iago through a detailed character analysis. The third chapter will be an exploration of the pre-production of the character and how I …
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Arresting figures: Reading and theorizing Renaissance texts
… selfhood and its relation to female sexuality in Othello. While Marguerite Waller divests the play of its multiple perspective by installing Othello as a reference point and by taking Iago's malice as the answer to Othello's treatment of Desdemona, this chapter treats Othello's selfhood as an …
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Telling realities : the story of Winnie Verloc in Joseph Conrad's The secret agent
… (to pursue the novel's haunting reference to Othello) with regard to "the pity of it".
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The myth of the Black male beast in postclassical American cinema: ‘Forging’ stereotypes and discovering Black masculinities
… collective unconscious and the ‘shadow’. Using Othello as a prototype character, I examine how he became an archetype that manifests two perceptions of Black characters in the collective unconscious. I define one as Othellophobia; a threat to the White supremacist Ego that imagines …
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Adventuring Men and Changeable Women in Early Modern Drama
… racial difference. Chapter 3 reads Shakespeare's Othello in comparison with the other three plays, suggesting that the main factor in Othello's failure to establish himself successfully in Venice, his Other's territory, is his inability to claim whiteness. Chapter 4 and 5 deal with Massinger's The …
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Black Women’s Bodies as the Site of Malignity: Interrogating (Mis)representations of Black Women in 16th and 17th Century British Literature
… and Masque of Beauty, and Shakespeare’s Othello.</p>
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Nicomachean and Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and Shakespeare's Tragedies
… two of Shakespeare's most compelling tragedies--Othello and King Lear--through the lens of contemporary virtue ethics theory, thereby offering new conceptions of how morality operates in these plays. Although neo-Aristotelian moral philosophers locate the roots of their theories in Aristotle's …
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The fascination of evil: mental malpractice in Shakespearean tragedy
… specific subjects of the dramatic analysis are Othello and Macbeth.
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