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.

Probes the Renaissance racial discourse that informs Shakespeare's characters Othello and Aaron, the Moor in his drama Titus Andronicus, as exotic threats to the social order.

Caro, Robert V. “Ignatian Discernment and the World of Othello.” Cross Currents 44, no. 3 (fall 1994): 332-44.

Applies the concept of spiritual discernment and analysis of spiritual disintegration proposed by St. Ignatius to an understanding of Othello's murder of Desdemona in Othello.

Ghazoul, Ferial J. “The Arabization of Othello.” Comparative Literature 50, no. 1 (winter 1998): 1-31.

Surveys the reception of Othello in the Arab world through translation, interpretation, and literary adaptation.

Hunt, Maurice. “Predestination and the Heresy of Merit in Othello.” Comparative Drama 30, no. 3 (fall 1996): 346-76.

Explores Othello as a Christian morality play in which the traditional Catholic theology of free will and temptation clashes with the Reformed Protestant doctrine of predestination.

Kaul, Mythili, ed. Othello: New Essays by Black Writers. Washington D.C.: Howard University Press, 1997, 223 p.

Collection of fourteen essays by various contributors on issues of theatrical, literary, or academic interest in regard to Othello, with a general emphasis on the racial aspects of Shakespeare's drama.

Kolin, Philip C., ed. Othello: New Critical Essays. New York: Routledge, 2002, 458 p.

Comprised of twenty contemporary, interpretive essays on Othello from a range of scholars, preceded by a survey of critical, stage, and filmic interpretations of the drama by the volume editor.

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

New historicist assessment of Othello that considers the drama as it exposes attitudes toward slavery and selfhood in early modern England.

Vanita, Ruth. “Men Beware Men: Shakespeare's Warning for Unfair Husbands.” Comparative Drama 28, no. 2 (summer 1994): 201-20.

Examines Renaissance plays, including Othello and other works by Shakespeare, that incorporate a chastity theme and dubious tests of honor to the detriment (or in extreme cases, fatality) of innocent wives.