Orlin Othello

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-137-11548-5
Verlag: Macmillan Education
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 269 Seiten, Ebook (PDF)

Reihe: New Casebooks

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.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Orlin, Lena Cowen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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