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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... woman who interrupted my earnest plea about the need to historicize in order to appreciate the power of Desdemona's public avowal of sexual interest in Othello by saying , " What do you mean — my father would have slapped me across the ...
... woman who interrupted my earnest plea about the need to historicize in order to appreciate the power of Desdemona's public avowal of sexual interest in Othello by saying , " What do you mean — my father would have slapped me across the ...
Strana 1
... woman , history of spousal abuse , mur- der of wife and friend , claims to have loved his wife ' too much , ' etc. ? " The author of these words , a Shakespearean who teaches at a university in the western United States , was addressing ...
... woman , history of spousal abuse , mur- der of wife and friend , claims to have loved his wife ' too much , ' etc. ? " The author of these words , a Shakespearean who teaches at a university in the western United States , was addressing ...
Strana 2
... women for themselves and about each other , including those that underwrite and undermine marriage . It is preoccupied with racial difference as well . Its protagonist is an alien to white Christian Europe , what we would now call an im ...
... women for themselves and about each other , including those that underwrite and undermine marriage . It is preoccupied with racial difference as well . Its protagonist is an alien to white Christian Europe , what we would now call an im ...
Strana 3
... women's sexuality are central questions for anyone studying Othello , but I tell this story for different reasons . My colleague's question emphasized the importance of contex- tualization for interpretation . If you don't understand ...
... women's sexuality are central questions for anyone studying Othello , but I tell this story for different reasons . My colleague's question emphasized the importance of contex- tualization for interpretation . If you don't understand ...
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... women are whores " ; but the italicized propositions seem to have a life of their own , blacks are the devil , women are whores , unimpeded by " wrong " in the same way that erroneous convictions ( " ' Tis not to make me jealous " ) are ...
... women are whores " ; but the italicized propositions seem to have a life of their own , blacks are the devil , women are whores , unimpeded by " wrong " in the same way that erroneous convictions ( " ' Tis not to make me jealous " ) are ...
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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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