Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
| Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Philip C Kolin |
| ISBN: | 0815335741 9780815335740 |
| OCLC Number: | 46456260 |
| Description: | xii, 458 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Blackness made visible : a survey of Othello in criticism, on stage, and on screen / Philip C. Kolin -- The audience's role in Othello / Hugh Macrae Richmond -- White faces, blackface : the production of "race" in Othello / Sujata Iyengar -- Images of white identity in Othello / Peter Erickson -- "Words and performances" : Roderigo and the mixed dramaturgy of race and gender in Othello / John R. Ford -- The curse of Cush : Othello's Judaic ancestry / James R. Andreas, Sr. -- Relating things to the state : "the state" and the subject of Othello / Thomas Moisan -- Venetian ideology or transversal power? Iago's motives and the means by which Othello falls / Bryan Reynolds and JosephFitzpatrick -- Othello : portrait of a marriage / David Bevington -- "Truly, an obedient lady" : Desdemona, Emilia, and the doctrine of obedience in Othello / Sara Munson Deats -- Morality, ethics and the failure of love in Shakespeare's Othello / John Gronbeck-Tedesco -- Keeping faith : water imagery and religious diversity in Othello / Clifford Ronan -- Representing Othello : early modern jury trials and the equitable judgments of tragedy / Nicholas Moschovakis -- Othello among the sonnets / James Schiffer -- The "O" in Othello : tropes of damnation and nothingness / Daniel J. Vitkus -- Trumpeting and "seeled" eyes : a semiotics of [eye]conography in Othello / LaRue Love Sloan -- "Work on my medicine" : physiologies and anatomies in Othello / Mary F. Lux -- Reading Othello backwords / Jay L. Halio -- The mystery of the early Othello texts / Scott McMillin -- "My cue to fight" : stage violence in Othello / Francis X. Kuhn -- An interview with Kent Thompson, artistic director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival / Philip C. Kolin. |
| Series Title: | Shakespeare criticism, v. 28. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Philip C. Kolin. |
| More information: |
Reviews
Publisher Synopsis
"Kolin's article is a masterful survey and in itself makes the book worthwhile. He is especially comprehensive and even-handed with the most recent era. Anyone undertaking the study of this play should begin here." -- William Procter Williams, Shakespeare Bulletin<br>..".unlike many collections of Shakespeare criticism, this volume does not include well-worn essays, but rather new, thought-provoking selections that extend the critical discourse; open up the play's connection to such diverse concepts as feminism, Marxism, new historicism, and semiotics; consider the play's relevance to broad cultural issues; and examine challenging new stagings. . .This title will be the go-to book on the play for scholars and theater practitioners, offering value for both students at the beginning of their Shakespeare study and scholars at an advanced level of study." -- Choice<br>"Professor Kolin has given us more than yet another addition to Shakespeareana. This volume of essays is stimulating and so Read more...
Tags
Similar Items
Related Subjects:(7)
- Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. -- Othello.
- Othello (Fictitious character)
- Tragedy.
- The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (Shakespeare)
- Tragédie.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Othello.
User lists with this item (6)
- Tayeb Salih(64 items)
by dstdiva98 updated 2013-03-14
- Things to Check Out(4 items)
by baymonkey updated 2011-10-17
- Shakespeare's Othello(5 items)
by s.snstokely updated 2010-09-08
- Shakespeare in EC Library(234 items)
by s.mcstarbuck updated 2010-09-08
- August 2009(500 items)
by mmeyers updated 2009-09-25
