Othello : a contextual history / Virginia Mason Vaughan.
Shakespeare's Othello has exercised a powerful fascination over audiences for centuries with its intense portrayal of passionate love and destructive jealousy. This study is a major exercise in the historicization of Othello. Initially the author examines the early Jacobean context of the play,...
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Cambridge ; New York :
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1994.
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Table of Contents:
- Global discourse: Venetians and Turks
- Military discourse: knights and mercenaries
- Racial discourse: Black and white
- Marital discourse: husbands and wives
- Othello in restoration England
- Amateur versus professional: the Delaval Othello
- William Charles Macready and the domestic Othello
- Salvini, Irving, and the dissociation of intellect
- "The Ethiopian Moor": Paul Robeson's Othello
- Orson Welles and the patriarchal eye
- Othello for the 1990s: Trevor Nunn's 1989 Royal Shakespeare Company production.