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Othello (New Casebooks)

by Lena Cowen Orlin

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Publisher Comments:

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.

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author

Lena Cowen Orlin is Professor of English, University of Maryland and Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America.

Table of Contents

Introduction--L. Cowen Orlin * 'Let it be Hid': Renaissance Pornography, Iago, and Audience Response--L.E. Boose * Culltural 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 * Raceing Othello: Re-Engendering White-Out--B. Hodgdon * Black and White, and Dread All Over: the Shakespeare Theater's 'Photonegative' Othello and the Body of Desdemona--D. Albanese * Further Reading * Index

Introduction--L. Cowen Orlin * 'Let it be Hid': Renaissance Pornography, Iago, and Audience Response--L.E. Boose * Culltural 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 * Raceing Othello: Re-Engendering White-Out--B. Hodgdon * Black and White, and Dread All Over: the Shakespeare Theater's 'Photonegative' Othello and the Body of Desdemona--D. Albanese * Further Reading * Index


Product Details

ISBN:
9780333633571
Editor:
Orlin, Lena Cowen
Other:
Orlin, Lena Cowen
Other:
Orlin, Lena Cowen
Editor:
Orlin, Lena Cowen
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan
Location:
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Subject:
Shakespeare
Subject:
History & Criticism *
Subject:
Shakespeare, William
Subject:
Tragedy
Subject:
Othello
Subject:
Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject
Subject:
General Literary Criticism & Collections
Subject:
Othello (Fictitious character)
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
New Casebooks
Series Volume:
no. 4
Publication Date:
December 2003
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
8.00x6.04x.59 in. .77 lbs.

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