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With its focus on gender, power, race, sexuality, and violence, Othello is an important site for new critical approaches to the study of Shakespeare's works.
Marc Notes: Contemporary critical essays--Cover; Bibl. ref.; Avail. in cloth. Biographical Note: 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
Contributor Bio: Orlin, Lena Cowen Lena Orlin is a Professor of English at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA and Executive Director of the Shakespeare Society of America.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 29, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780333633571 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Pages | 269 |
| Dimensions | 139 × 215 × 15 mm · 349 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Orlin, Lena Cowen |
