Othello (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Orlin, Lena Cowen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 269
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137115485
• Artikelnr.: 62860771

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.