Tells of the naive Moor who is successfully manipulated by the ambitious and deceitful Iago
With a foreword by the renowned critic Fred Moten, this edition is the first of its kind and puts Othello’s blackness and interiority front and center, forcing us to confront the complex world that ultimately dooms him.
You gotta pity the fool who gets shafted by the green eyed monster. Let's hope Othello can work out who to trust before it's too late.
This study is a major exercise in the historicisation of Othello in which the author examines contemporary writings and demonstrates how they were embedded in the text of Othello: discourse about conflict between Turk and Venetian treatises ...
Newman, Karen. “ 'And wash the Ethiop white': Femininity and the Monstrous in Othello.” In Shakespeare Reproduced, ed. Jean E. Howard and Marion O'Connor, pp. 143—62. London: Methuen, 1987. Newman investigates the production of race and ...
Othello
Instead he riveted viewers' attention by means of the psychological intensity that informed the minutest details of his meticulously observed performance: his hoarding of '[a] little 1 Michael Billington, Guardian, 11 May 1984; ...
–BRUCE R. SMITH, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA lthough other Shakespeare plays offer higher body counts, more gore, and more plentiful scenes of heartbreak, Othello packs an unusually powerful affective punch, stunning us with its ...
A prose retelling of Shakespeare's play in which a jealous general is duped into thinking that his wife has been unfaithful, with tragic consequences. Includes background information, character summary, and commonly asked questions.
In the board game 'Othello', players must turn double-sided counters to their advantage.
Othello, The Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the short story "Moor of Venice" by Cinthio, believed to have been written in approximately 1603.