Othello

ISBN-13: 9780333633571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 269 str.

Lena Cowen Orlin

Opis

This collection of recent essays provides readers with examples of feminist, new-historicist, cultural materialist, deconstructive, and post-colonial criticism of Othello. Together they show how Shakespeare's play continues to signify in popular culture as well as in critical history. The volume includes a helpful introduction on critical approaches to Shakespeare and a guide to further reading.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction; L.Cowen Orlin.- 'Let it be Hid': The Pornographic Aesthetic of Shakespeare's Othello; L.E.Boose.- Cultural Materialism, Othello, and the Politics of Plausibility; A.Sinfield.- Charivari and the Comedy of Abjection in Othello; M.D.Bristol.- Impertinent Trifling: Desdemona's Handkerchief; H.Berger,Jr.- Brothers of the State: Othello, Bureaucracy, and Epistemological Crisis; E.Hanson.- Othello on Trial; E.C.Bartels.- Othello's Identity, Postcolonial Theory, and Contemporary African Rewritings of Othello; J.Singh.- Race-ing Othello: Re-Engendering White-Out; B.Hodgdon.- Black and White, and Dread All Over: the Shakespeare Theatre's 'Photonegative' Othello and the Body of Desdemona; D.Albanese.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.

O autorze

LENA COWEN ORLIN is Professor of English at Georgetown University, Washington DC, and Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America.

Blurb

With its focus on gender, power, race, sexuality, and violence, Othello is an important site for new critical approaches to the study of Shakespeare's works. Both criticism and culture are represented in this collection of recent essays which provides readers with examples of feminist, new-historicist, cultural materialist, deconstructive, and post-colonial perspectives on Othello. With discussions of recent stage and screen productions, and analysis of the use of the play in such contemporary events as the O.J. Simpson murder trial, this compelling critical volume presents a wide variety of ways of understanding the continuing significance of Shakespeare's play both in his own time and in ours.