Miles P. Grier

Inkface

Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Traces productions of Shakespeareâ s Othello from seventeenth-century London to the Metropolitan Opera in twenty-first-century New York. Miles Grier shows how the painted stage Moor and the wife whom he theatrically stains became necessary types, reduced to objects of interpretation for a presumed white male audience.

Produktdetails

• Writing the Early Americas
• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 234mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780813950372
• ISBN-10: 0813950376
• Artikelnr.: 69187059

Autorenporträt

Miles P. Grier is Associate Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Residue of Inkface
1. The Moor of Venice Reconstructed
"O Bloody Period": Othello's Constitution and Significance
"Letter and Affection," or Iago's Motive Reconsidered
Interlude: Desdemona's Guilt, or "The Farce of Dead Alive"
2. "Be Thus When Thou Art Dead": Aphra Benh's Remediation of Othello
3. "Pale as thy Smock": Abigail Adams in Desdemona's Whites
4. The Cherokee Othello: Treating with 'The Base Indian'
5. Inkface to Chalkbones: The End of White Character Mastery in Melville's "BC"
Epilogue: An Ultimate Reader