William Shakespeare's Othello / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.
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New York :
Chelsea House,
[1996]
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Table of Contents:
- Critical views
- Implausible characters in the play / Thomas Rymer
- Greatness of the play / Samuel Johnson
- Characters and dramatic tension in the play / William Hazlitt
- Negroes and Moors / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Iago's motivations / A.C. Bradley
- Othello as Colossus / Wyndham Lewis
- Desdemona's handkerchief / Kenneth Burke
- Diabolism in the play / S.L. Bethell
- Iago and knowledge / W.H. Auden
- Othello's marriage / K.W. Evans
- Iago as slighted homosexual / Stanley Edgar Hyman
- Cassio / Leslie A. Fiedler
- Iago's hostility to Othello / Ruth Nevo
- Desdemona's love for Othello / Susan Snyder
- Love and sex in the play / John Bayley
- Contrast between men and women in the play / Carol Thomas Neely
- Christianized Moor / Anthony Hecht
- Othello and racism / Edward Berry
- Power in the play / Julia Genster
- Othello's suicide / Derek Cohen
- Monster imagery and racism in the play / James R. Aubrey.