Othello and Interpretive TraditionsUniversity of Iowa Press, 1. 8. 1999 - Počet stran: 272 During the past twenty years or so, Othello has become the Shakespearean tragedy that speaks most powerfully to our contemporary concerns. Focusing on race and gender (and on class, ethnicity, sexuality, and nationality), the play talks about what audiences want to talk about. Yet at the same time, as refracted through Iago, it forces us to hear what we do not want to hear; like the characters in the play, we become trapped in our own prejudicial malice and guilt. |
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... performance to the next of what we uncritically call " the same production . " Performance history , then , might ( and often does ) dissolve into a miscellany of greatly memorable realizations , momentous but also momentary as a sound ...
... performance to the next of what we uncritically call " the same production . " Performance history , then , might ( and often does ) dissolve into a miscellany of greatly memorable realizations , momentous but also momentary as a sound ...
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... performance where “ a very pretty lady ... called out to see Desdemona smothered , " and by the biogra- pher of Edwin Forrest , one of the memorable American Othellos in the nineteenth century , whose performance provoked “ a refined ...
... performance where “ a very pretty lady ... called out to see Desdemona smothered , " and by the biogra- pher of Edwin Forrest , one of the memorable American Othellos in the nineteenth century , whose performance provoked “ a refined ...
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... performance tradition dating back to the late eighteenth century ( Hankey , 52 ff . ) , when " the awesome , majestic " Sarah Siddons " surprised ” and “ amazed " au- diences " at the transition from her erstwhile tragic majesty to ...
... performance tradition dating back to the late eighteenth century ( Hankey , 52 ff . ) , when " the awesome , majestic " Sarah Siddons " surprised ” and “ amazed " au- diences " at the transition from her erstwhile tragic majesty to ...
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Introduction Othello and Interpretive Traditions | 1 |
Othello in Theatrical and Critical History | 11 |
Disconfirmation | 30 |
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