Othello

Othello Criticism

• Othello (Vol. 53)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Race
    • The Importance of Othello's Race
    • Othello: The Moor and the Metaphor
    • Othello's African American Progeny
    • Reading What Isn’t There: ‘Black’ Studies in Early Modern England
    • Race and the Spectacle of the Monstrous in Othello
    • ‘The Moor of Venice,’ or The Italian on the Renaissance English Stage
    • Iago's Alter Ego: Race as Projection in Othello
    • 'Mulattos,' 'Blacks,' and 'Indian Moors': Othello and Early Modern Constructions of Human Difference
    • Othello, Racism, and Despair
    • Race Mattered: Othello in Late Eighteenth-Century England
  • Criticism: Gender Issues
    • Othello: Women and ‘Woman’
    • Marriage and Mutuality in Othello
    • Othello's Occupation: Shakespeare and the Romance of Chivalry
  • Criticism: Language And Imagery
    • Obeying the Time in Othello: A Myth and the Mess It Made
    • Putting Out the Light: Semantic Indeterminacy and the Deconstitution of Self in Othello
  • Venetian Culture and the Politics of Othello
  • Further Reading
• Othello (Vol. 68)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Othello as Ironist
    • Shakespeare's Desdemona
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Revisioning the Woman's Part: Paula Vogel's Desdemona
    • Shakespeare Performed: Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon: Summer and Winter, 1999-2000
    • Virgin and Ape, Venetian and Infidel: Labellings of Otherness in Oliver Parker's Othello
    • Review of O.
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Othello and Colour Prejudice
    • Women and Men in Othello
    • Historical Differences: Misogyny and Othello
    • ‘An essence that's not seen’: The Primal Scene of Racism in Othello
    • ‘Proper’ Men and ‘Fallen’ Women: The Unprotectedness of Wives in Othello
  • Further Reading
• Othello (Vol. 79)
  • Introduction
  • Stage-Managing ‘Otherness’: The Function of Narrative in Othello.
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • ‘Egregiously an Ass’: The Dark Side of the Moor. A View of Othello's Mind
    • Iago—Vice or Devil?
    • Strategies of Submission: Desdemona, the Duchess, and the Assertion of Desire
    • Shakespeare's Moor
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • A Revolt against God with No Apology
    • Review of Othello
    • Review of Othello
    • Less Is Moor
    • Moor is Less
    • Review of Othello
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Magical Properties: Vision, Possession, and Wonder in Othello.
    • Felt Absences: The Stage Properties of Othello's Handkerchief
    • ‘At the Door of Truth’: The Hollowness of Signs in Othello.
    • Devouring Discourses: Desire and Seduction in Othello.
    • Relating Things to the State: ‘The State’ and the Subject of Othello.
  • Further Reading
• Theatricality and Textuality: The Example of Othello
  • Introduction
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • IV
• Othello (Vol. 89)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • The Modern Othello
    • Idolatrous Love: A New Approach to Othello
    • The Ironic Equation in Shakespeare's Othello: Appearances Equal Reality
    • Ethiops Washed White: Moors of the Nonvillainous Type
    • Othello
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Three Green-eyed Monsters: Acting as Applied Criticism in Shakespeare's Othello
    • Circling the Square
    • Much to Love about Othello as It Comes to London
    • O.
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Honest Othello: The Handkerchief Once More
    • Othello and the ‘Plain Face’ of Racism
    • The Bard, the Black, the Jew
  • Further Reading
• The Humiliation of Iago
• Iago's Alter Ego: Race as Projection in Othello
• The Adaptation of a Shakespearean Genre: Othello and Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
• Othello (Vol. 35)
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • The Trials of Othello
    • The Tragic Perspective of Othello
    • Destructive Revenge in Julius Caesar and Othello
  • Madness
    • Iago or Moral Sadism
    • Some Monster in His Thought: Sadism and Tragedy in Othello
    • Othello: Symbolic Action, Ritual and Myth
  • Jealousy
    • Othello's Journey
    • Shakespeare and the Green Eyed Monster
  • Sexual Conflict
    • Othello's Desdemona
    • Endopsychic Drama in Othello
    • The Late Tragedies: Othello
  • Iago
    • The Silence of Iago
    • Iago the Psychopath
  • Desdemona
    • Desdemona Unpinned: Universal Guilt in Othello
    • Unpinned or Undone?: Desdemona's Critics and the Problem of Sexual Innocence
    • A Woman Tamed: Othello
    • Impertinent Trifling: Desdemona's Hander-chief
  • Further Reading
• Have You Not Read of Some Such Thing? Sex and Sexual Stories in Othello
• That's She That Was Myself: Not-So-Famous Last Words and Some Ends of Othello
• Voice Potential: Language and Symbolic Capital in Othello