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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Main Author: Vaughan, Virginia Mason.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 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.