Othello: A Contextual History

ISBN-13: 9780521587082 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 260 str.

Virginia Mason Vaughan

Opis

Shakespeare's Othello has exercised a powerful fascination over audiences with its portrayal of destructive jealousy. This study is a major exercise in the historicization of Othello in which the author examines contemporary writings and demonstrates how they were embedded in the text. Subsequent chapters analyze representations and interpretations from the Restoration to the present, using illustrations of performances and performers. Othello is revealed as a significant shaper of cultural meaning.

Recenzje

Othello: a Contextual History represents a genuinely new way of doing Shakespeare studies; a synthesis of performance and context histories that works only because so intelligently and compellingly historicised. It will be deeply influential.' Meridian

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Jacobean Contexts: 1. Global discourse: Venetians and Turks; 2. Military discourse: knights and mercenaries; 3. Racial discourse: black and white; 4. Marital discourse: husbands and wives; Part II. Representations: 5. Othello in Restoration England; 6. Amateur versus professional: the Delaval Othello; 7. William Charles Macready and the domestic Othello; 8. Salvini, Irving, and the dissociation of intellect; 9. 'The Ethiopian Moor': Paul Robeson's Othello; 10. Orson Welles and the patriarchal eye; 11. Othello for the 1990s: Trevor Nunn's 1989 Royal Shakespeare Company production; Conclusion.