CRITICISM

Bartels, Emily C. “Making More of the Moor: Aaron, Othello, and Renaissance Refashionings of Race.” Shakespeare Quarterly 41, No. 4 (Winter 1990): 433-54.

Compares Shakespeare's treatment of Moors in Titus Andronicus and Othello, arguing that dominant Renaissance racial views were contested in Othello.

Cantor, Paul A. “Othello: The Erring Barbarian among the Supersubtle Venetians.” Southwest Review 75, No. 3 (Summer 1990): 296–319.

Traces Othello’s struggle between the domestic world of Venice and his past as a warrior and outsider.

Cohen, Derek. “Othello's Suicide.” University of Toronto Quarterly 62, No. 3 (Spring 1993): 323-33.

Links Othello's suicide to his ultimate capitulation to the dominant Venetian society.

Ghazoul, Ferial J. “The Arabization of Othello.” Comparative Literature 50, No. 1 (Winter 1998): 1–31.

Discusses Arab reactions to and interpretations of Othello.

Grennan, Eamon. “The Women's Voices in Othello: Speech, Song, Silence.” Shakespeare Quarterly 38, No. 3 (Autumn 1997): 275-92.

Argues the importance of the female voices in Othello and posits that their speeches play a pivotal role in creating the play's moral landscape.

Jones, Eldred. “Othello—An Interpretation.” In Critical Essays on Shakespeare's “Othello”, pp. 39-54. Edited by Anthony Gerard Barthelemy. New York: G. K. Hall & Co., 1994.

Considers Shakespeare's depiction of Othello in relation to the traditional depiction of Moors in England. Jones argues that Shakespeare exploits the stereotype, but that Othello emerges as an individual whose weaknesses are attributable to human nature.

Little, Arthur L., Jr. “‘An essence that’s not seen’: The Primal Scene of Racism in Othello.” Shakespeare Quarterly 44, No. 3 (Fall 1993): 304-24.

Explores the transformation of the meaning of Othello's race throughout the play.

Loomba, Ania. “Sexuality and Racial Difference.” In Critical Essays on Shakespeare's “Othello”, pp. 162-86. Edited by Anthony Gerard Barthelemy. New York: G. K. Hall & Co., 1994.

Discusses race and feminist ideology in Othello.

Newman, Karen. “‘And wash the Ethiop white’: Femininity and the Monstrous in Othello.” In Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama, pp. 71-94. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Examines race and femininity in Othello, arguing that the play is centered around miscegenation.

Singh, Jyotsna. “Othello's Identity, Postcolonial Theory, and Contemporary African Rewritings of Othello.” In Women, ‘Race,’ and Writing in the Early Modern Period, pp. 287-99. Edited by Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Reexamines the racial nature of Othello from the perspective of post-colonial African writers.

Slights, Camille Wells. “Slaves and Subjects in Othello.” Shakespeare Quarterly 48, No. 4 (1997): 377-90.

Considers emerging ideas about self and their relationship to concepts of slavery and race in Othello.

Widmayer, Martha. “Brabantio and Othello.” English Studies 77, No. 2 (March 1996): 113-26.

Argues that both Desdemona's father and Othello are obsessed with the concept of absolute goodness, which they ascribe to the character of Desdemona.