Race In William Shakespeare S Othello
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Race In William Shakespeare S Othello
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Author : Vernon Elso Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Release Date : 2011-12-22
Race In William Shakespeare S Othello written by Vernon Elso Johnson and has been published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-22 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
When decorated Moorish general Othello appoints Cassio as his chief lieutenant, Iago gets jealous and plots revenge, alleging that Othello's wife, a much younger white woman, is having an affair with Cassio. In many ways, Shakespeare's Othello remains a potent expression of race and racism three-hundred years after its publication. This volume offers compelling interpretations of the actions and the characters that have made this play so controversial. Essays discuss the question of Othello's color, the contradictory notions of black and white in the play, sexuality and racial difference, and whether Desdemona's marriage to Othello incites racism. Contributors include Ania Loomba, Peter Ackroyd, and Doris Adler.
William Shakespeare Othello
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Author : Emma Smith
language : en
Publisher: Northcote House Pub Limited
Release Date : 2005
William Shakespeare Othello written by Emma Smith and has been published by Northcote House Pub Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the board game 'Othello', players must turn double-sided counters to their advantage. This doubleness is shared by Shakespeare's play of 1604, marked from its outset by a dual and paradoxical title 'Othello, or the Moor of Venice'. This study teases out instances of doubleness, duplication and paradox to discuss the play's language and its themes. Chapters cover the issues of substitution, of racial polarity and its confusions, of the contested place of the domestic in the play, and the mixed generic signals this comedy-turned-tragedy gives out to its audiences. Throughout the emphasis is on the close readings of the play on the page and on stage, informed by the recent scholarship that has made Othello so pressing a play for the vexed cultural politics of the twenty-first century.
The Beast With Two Backs Race And Racism In Shakespeare S Othello
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Author : Ann-Kathrin Latter
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2017-03-08
The Beast With Two Backs Race And Racism In Shakespeare S Othello written by Ann-Kathrin Latter and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: This term paper seeks to dislocate traces of racism within the characters of Iago, Othello, and Desdemona in Shakespeare's "Othello". By scrutinizing both overt and covert forms of xenophobia, it tries to explain how and why the play came to its tragic ending. In 1994, Nelson Mandela wrote in his autobiography that "no one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion" and that, consequently, "people must learn to hate". By itself, this is a simple statement but it is also egregious in the way it makes us understand. There is nothing it could not explain, no dispute it could not illuminate. And even though Mr. Mandela had originally formulated his statement with regard to Apartheid, it fits extraordinarily well to racism in Shakespeare’s "Othello". Judging from Michael Neill’s investigations into the subject of notions of human difference in early modern societies, 16th century Venice had a considerably open attitude towards foreigners of any kind, with a great deal of cultural exchange taking place between people of every colour and every religion. By the beginning of the 17th century, however, this started to change: as the number of encounters with foreign cultures increased, "color emerg[ed] as the most important criterion for defining otherness" (Neill). As Mandela would have put it, Venetians started to learn hating others in behalf of their skin colour. And precisely this kind of development is illustrated in Othello: the Moor, who is actually a prime example for successful integration, has to endure an increasing degree of enmities and discriminations as racist sentiments begin to emerge in Venetian society — sentiments even Othello himself cannot resist.
Shakespeare S Othello Racism In Othello
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Author : Kay Adenstedt
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2009-10-13
Shakespeare S Othello Racism In Othello written by Kay Adenstedt and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Cambridge (English ), course: Supervision: Fitzwilliam Collge: Shakespeare, language: English, abstract: Shakespeare’s Othello has caught people’s attention for more than four hundred years now. This is may be true for many other Shakespearean plays as well, but Othello was exceptionally popular at its time of origin and is not less so today. Reasons for this are probably manifold, but the notions of gender, sexuality, status and race which are still very current issues might contribute to this timeless and universal appreciation. The latter is at the focus of this essay.
Shakespeare Race And Colonialism
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Author : Ania Loomba
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2002-09-05
Shakespeare Race And Colonialism written by Ania Loomba and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
For centuries, plays like Othello and The Tempest have spoken about 'race' to audiences whose lives have been, and continue to be, enormously affected by the racial question. But are concepts such as 'race' or 'racism', 'xenophobia', 'ethnicity', or even 'nation' appropriate for analysing communities and identities in early modern Europe? Did skin colour matter to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, or was religious difference more important to them? This book examines how Shakespeare's plays contribute to, and are themselves crafted from, contemporary ideas about social and cultural difference. It considers how such ideas might have been different from later ideologies of 'race' that emerged during colonialism, but also from older ideas about barbarism, blackness, and religious difference. Thus it places the racial question in Shakespeare's plays alongside the histories with which they converse. Shakespeare uses and plays with the vocabularies of difference prevailing in his time, repeatedly turning to religious and cultural cross-overs and conversions - their impossibility, or the traumas they engender, or the social upheavals they can generate. Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism looks in depth at Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest, and Titus Andronicus, and also shows how racial difference shapes the language and themes of other plays.
Shakespeare And Race
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Author : Catherine M. S. Alexander
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-12-21
Shakespeare And Race written by Catherine M. S. Alexander and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-12-21 with Drama categories.
This volume, first published in 2000, draws together thirteen important essays on the concept of race in Shakespeare's drama.
Race And Religion In Othello
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Author : Nadja Niyaz
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2017-06-27
Race And Religion In Othello written by Nadja Niyaz and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, LMU Munich, language: English, abstract: This paper is structured into two parts – in the first part about race I first want to talk about some theories about Othello’s race, Elizabethan stereotypes about Moors and what might have been reasons for making Othello, the Moor of Venice. In the second part I am going to focus on the part religion plays in Othello, the opposition of Christianity against Islam, the influence religion, the bible and the other character’s religious affiliations play in Othello and of course Othello’s own religious denomination.
Othello A Racist Play
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Author : Anouk Anderson
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2009-08
Othello A Racist Play written by Anouk Anderson and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08 with categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Bremen, language: English, abstract: Othello already raised questions about the nature of race, its social implications and about the correlation of outer appearances and inner qualities. The matter of skin colour and racist stereotyping is evident in Othello and it is vital for the interpretation of the play. As an "extravagant and wheeling stranger/ Of here, and every where" (1.1.135-136). Othello is not just like any other man, but largely defined by his origin and colour. In this paper I want to examine the role of Othello's skin colour in the play and if we can consider the play as racist. Although these questions are today probably more relevant than ever, my main focus will be to analyse the importance of race in the context of Shakespeare's times. In order to answer the question, whether or not Othello is a racist drama, I first have to define the term 'race'. As the concept of race has changed over time and is still changing, I will also look at Elizabethan attitudes towards race and foreigners and how strangers were portrayed on the Elizabethan stage. The play is not set in England, but in Venice, a place that serves a certain function in the play, which I will also examine. In the second part of this paper I will look at the play itself and its characters. I will analyse the different roles and their attitudes towards Othello's colour and how they influence Othello's self-perception and his personal fate. In Othello skin colour and blackness stand for more than just physical appearance or cultural background, but it is also linked to the character's inner lives and it largely determines the outcome of the play. The importance of racial concepts in Othello will be examined in the last part of this paper.
Critical Essays On Shakespeare S Othello
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Author : Anthony Gerard Barthelemy
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1994
Critical Essays On Shakespeare S Othello written by Anthony Gerard Barthelemy and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Drama categories.
"Othello" has been called the greatest of Shakespeare's plays and also condemned as the most flawed of his major works. This collection of critical essays centres on race as the main concern of the play, highlighting the area as central to the understandin
Barbarous Play
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Author : Lara Bovilsky
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2008
Barbarous Play written by Lara Bovilsky and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Social Science categories.
"Exploring the similar underpinnings of early modern and contemporary ideas of difference, this book examines the English Renaissance understandings of race as depicted in drama. Reading plays by Shakespeare, Marlow, Webster, and Middleton, Lara Bovilskyoffers case studies of how racial meanings are generated by narratives of boundary crossing--especially miscegenation, religious conversion, class transgression, and moral and physical degeneracy. In the process, she reveals the parallels between the period's conceptions of race and gender"--From publisher description.