1. Darkness Made Visible: A survey of Othello in Criticism and on Stage Philip C. Kolin 2. The Audience's Role in Othello Hugh Macrae Richmond 3. White Faces, Black-Face" The Production of "Race" in Othello Sujata Iyengar 4. Images of White Identity in Othello Peter Erickson 5. 'Words and Performance": Roderigo and the Mixed Dramaturgy of Race and Gender in Othello John R. Ford 6. The Curse of Cush: Othello's Judaic Ancestry James R. Andreas 7. Relating Things to the State: "The State" and the Subject of Othello Thomas Moisan 8. Venetian Ideology or Transversal Power? Iago's Motives and the Means by which Othello Falls Bryan Reynolds & Joseph Fitzpatrick 9. Othello: Portrait of a Marriage David Bevington 10. "Truly, an Obedient Lady": Desdemona, Emilia, and the Doctrine of Obedience in Othello Sara Deats 11. Morality, Ethics, and the Failure of Love in Othello John Gronbeck-Tedesco 12. Keeping Faith: Water Imagery and Religious Diversity in Othello Clifford Ronan 13. Representing Othello: Early Modern Jury Trials and the Equitable Judgments of Tragedy Nicholas Moschovakis 14. Othello Among the Sonnets James Schiffer 15. The "O" in Othello: Tropes of Damnation and Nothingness Dabiel J. Vitkus 16. Trumpeting and "Seeled" Eyes: A Semiotics of [Eye]conography in Othello LaRue Love Sloan 17. "Work on My Medicine": Physiology and Consumption in Othello Mary Lux 18. Reading Othello Backwards Jay L. Halio 19. "The Mystery of the Early Othello Texts" Scott McMillin 20. "My Cue to Fight": Stage Violence in Othello Francis X. Kuhn 21. An Interview with Kent Thompson, Artistic Director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival Philip C. Kolin
Philip Kolin is Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the series editor of the Shakespeare Criticism series.
"Kolin's article is a masterful survey and in itself makes the book
worthwhile. He is especially comprehensive and even-handed with the
most recent era. Anyone undertaking the study of this play should
begin here." William Procter Williams, Shakespeare
Bulletin"...unlike many collections of Shakespeare criticism, this
volume does not include well-worn essays, but rather new,
thought-provoking selections that extend the critical discourse;
open up the play's connection to such diverse concepts as feminism,
Marxism, new historicism, and semiotics; consider the play's
relevance to broad cultural issues; and examine challenging new
stagings. . .This title will be the go-to book on the play for
scholars and theater practitioners, offering value for both
students at the beginning of their Shakespeare study and scholars
at an advanced level of study." Choice"Professor Kolin has given us
more than yet another addition to Shakespeareana. This volume of
essays is stimulating and sound both in its scholarly conclusinos
as well as in its noteworthy considerations of both the critical
and the theatrical. These complementary assessments increase its
value as a resource to both critics and producers of Shakespeare."
Sidney Berger, University of Houston/Houston Shakespeare Festival,
Journal of Drama Theory and Criticism"Put together these essays are
complementary rather than competing, the sign of an editor with a
wide vision and critical horizon." Rodney Stenning Edgecombe,
University of Cape Town, The Shakespeare Newsletter"In this
exceptional collection of essays on Othello, twenty authors range
across a vast landscape of critical practice, regularly startling
us with insights about this play and performances of it. Where else
can one read in side-by-side essays a lucid account of the textual
intricacies of the quarto and folio editions of the play and then a
compelling study of stage violence, citing actual productions?
Roderigo, a dangerous guide for the audience; Iago, a master actor
in a metatheatrical allegory; and Desdemona, caught in conflicting
matrimonial models, all emerge in astute new critical
understanding. Philip Kolin deserves our thanks for initiating and
producing this volume that will compel every serious student of
Shakespeare to think anew about the joys and terror of this spare
and frightening tragedy." David M. Bergeron, University of
Kansas"This is a well-organized, comprehensive, and often
innovative account of issues in current Othello criticism. The
volume includes a refreshing array of critical and ideological
perspectives in essays which are uniformly scholarly and thorough
in their treatment of the subject matter. The collection makes
clear that while Othello may well be a play for all times, it is
especially a play for our times when questions of racial and
religious difference and the relation between the private
individual and the state beset us with renewed and ever-more urgent
intensity." Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University"In this
fascinating collection, some of today's liveliest and most
distinguished Shakespeareans engage with Othello from across a
broad spectrum of historical and theoretical perspectives. Along
with Kolin's substantial introductory survey of the play's critical
and performance history, this book is bound to reinforce Othello's
extraordinary current appeal, not just to scholars and students of
Shakespeare but to non-academic readers, theatrical audiences and
moviegoers as well." Edward Pechter, Concordia
"Kolin's article is a masterful survey and in itself makes the book
worthwhile. He is especially comprehensive and even-handed with the
most recent era. Anyone undertaking the study of this play should
begin here." William Procter Williams, Shakespeare
Bulletin"...unlike many collections of Shakespeare criticism, this
volume does not include well-worn essays, but rather new,
thought-provoking selections that extend the critical discourse;
open up the play's connection to such diverse concepts as feminism,
Marxism, new historicism, and semiotics; consider the play's
relevance to broad cultural issues; and examine challenging new
stagings. . .This title will be the go-to book on the play for
scholars and theater practitioners, offering value for both
students at the beginning of their Shakespeare study and scholars
at an advanced level of study." Choice"Professor Kolin has given us
more than yet another addition to Shakespeareana. This volume of
essays is stimulating and sound both in its scholarly conclusinos
as well as in its noteworthy considerations of both the critical
and the theatrical. These complementary assessments increase its
value as a resource to both critics and producers of Shakespeare."
Sidney Berger, University of Houston/Houston Shakespeare Festival,
Journal of Drama Theory and Criticism"Put together these essays are
complementary rather than competing, the sign of an editor with a
wide vision and critical horizon." Rodney Stenning Edgecombe,
University of Cape Town, The Shakespeare Newsletter"In this
exceptional collection of essays on Othello, twenty authors range
across a vast landscape of critical practice, regularly startling
us with insights about this play and performances of it. Where else
can one read in side-by-side essays a lucid account of the textual
intricacies of the quarto and folio editions of the play and then a
compelling study of stage violence, citing actual productions?
Roderigo, a dangerous guide for the audience; Iago, a master actor
in a metatheatrical allegory; and Desdemona, caught in conflicting
matrimonial models, all emerge in astute new critical
understanding. Philip Kolin deserves our thanks for initiating and
producing this volume that will compel every serious student of
Shakespeare to think anew about the joys and terror of this spare
and frightening tragedy." David M. Bergeron, University of
Kansas"This is a well-organized, comprehensive, and often
innovative account of issues in current Othello criticism. The
volume includes a refreshing array of critical and ideological
perspectives in essays which are uniformly scholarly and thorough
in their treatment of the subject matter. The collection makes
clear that while Othello may well be a play for all times, it is
especially a play for our times when questions of racial and
religious difference and the relation between the private
individual and the state beset us with renewed and ever-more urgent
intensity." Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University"In this
fascinating collection, some of today's liveliest and most
distinguished Shakespeareans engage with Othello from across a
broad spectrum of historical and theoretical perspectives. Along
with Kolin's substantial introductory survey of the play's critical
and performance history, this book is bound to reinforce Othello's
extraordinary current appeal, not just to scholars and students of
Shakespeare but to non-academic readers, theatrical audiences and
moviegoers as well." Edward Pechter, Concordia University
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