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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... argument ) , whose terms have been estab- lished by , say , Edwin Booth , Helena Faucit , Thomas Rymer , Laurence Fishburne , Stephen Greenblatt , Henry Jackson , and Karen Newman , a list that could be extended almost indefinitely and ...
... argument ) , whose terms have been estab- lished by , say , Edwin Booth , Helena Faucit , Thomas Rymer , Laurence Fishburne , Stephen Greenblatt , Henry Jackson , and Karen Newman , a list that could be extended almost indefinitely and ...
Strana x
... argument of " Othello " and Interpretive Traditions is shaped primarily by practical concerns and proceeds along interpretive rather than theoreti- cal or metacritical lines : after an opening survey of Othello's stage and critical ...
... argument of " Othello " and Interpretive Traditions is shaped primarily by practical concerns and proceeds along interpretive rather than theoreti- cal or metacritical lines : after an opening survey of Othello's stage and critical ...
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... continued , meandering into long and frequently en- raged arguments about wife - battering , the biases of the media , the need to assume innocence until guilt is proven , among other. Introduction: Othello and Interpretive Traditions.
... continued , meandering into long and frequently en- raged arguments about wife - battering , the biases of the media , the need to assume innocence until guilt is proven , among other. Introduction: Othello and Interpretive Traditions.
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... argument is to blur if not totally erase the distinction between Othello and its interpretive traditions . If critical re- flection on the play winds up reproducing the malignancy it seeks to repudiate , then we can say that the play is ...
... argument is to blur if not totally erase the distinction between Othello and its interpretive traditions . If critical re- flection on the play winds up reproducing the malignancy it seeks to repudiate , then we can say that the play is ...
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... and historical accuracy are invoked , there is always an argument to be made ; and as a battle - scarred veteran of disciplinary turf wars , I am almost always eager to return to the fray Othello and Interpretive Traditions { 9 }
... and historical accuracy are invoked , there is always an argument to be made ; and as a battle - scarred veteran of disciplinary turf wars , I am almost always eager to return to the fray Othello and Interpretive Traditions { 9 }
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Othello in Theatrical and Critical History | 11 |
Disconfinuation | 30 |
lago | 53 |
The Fall of Othello | 79 |
The Pity Act | 113 |
Death without Transfiguration | 141 |
Interpretation as Contamination | 169 |
Character Endures | 183 |
Notes | 193 |
Works Cited | 231 |
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