CRITICISM

Bell, Millicent. “Othello's Jealousy.” Yale Review 85, no. 2 (April 1997): 120-36.

Contends that Othello's sexual jealousy is a device Shakespeare employed to emphasize an epistemological theme associated with Othello's paradoxical reliance on and distrust of appearances.

Breitenberg, Mark. “Anxious Masculinity: Sexual Jealousy in Early Modern England.” Feminist Studies 19, no. 2 (summer 1993): 377-98.

Provides a critique of Renaissance patriarchy that includes an examination of Othello's violent allegorization of jealousy.

Byles, Joan M. “The Winter's Tale, Othello and Troilus and Cressida: Narcissism and Sexual Betrayal.” American Imago 36, no. 1 (spring 1979): 80-93.

Offers a psychoanalytic and comparative study of themes of sexual jealousy and betrayal in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Othello, and The Winter's Tale.

Campbell, Lily B. “Othello: A Tragedy of Jealousy.” In Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes: Slaves of Passion. 1930. Reprint, pp. 148-74. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1960.

Highlights the racial and cultural components of Othello's jealousy in Othello.

Danson, Lawrence. “‘The Catastrophe Is a Nuptial’: The Space of Masculine Desire in Othello, Cymbeline, and The Winter's Tale.” Shakespeare Survey 46 (1994): 69-79.

Centers on Shakespeare's treatment of jealous husbands in the legal context of a male's possession of his wife and her property in marriage.

Fernie, Ewan. “Shame in Othello.” Cambridge Quarterly 28, no. 1 (1999): 19-45.

Contends that shame, rather than jealousy, is the central and unifying passion dramatized in Othello.

Godfrey, D. R. “Shakespeare and the Green-Eyed Monster.” Neophilologus 56 (1972): 207-20.

Observes the close association between evil, irrationality, and jealousy in Othello.

Gundersheimer, Werner. “‘The Green-Eyed Monster’: Renaissance Conceptions of Jealousy.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 137, no. 3 (September 1993): 321-31.

Surveys sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European literary representations of jealousy.

Hyman, Earle. “Othello: Or Ego in Love, Sex, and War.” In “Othello”: New Essays by Black Writers, edited by Mythili Kaul, pp. 23-28. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1997.

Maintains that Othello, while concerned with jealousy and racism, is specifically about ego and its aberrations.

Pearlman, E. “The Invention of Richard of Gloucester.” Shakespeare Quarterly 43, no. 4 (winter 1992): 410-29.

Examines themes of sexual jealousy and murderous rivalry between brothers in Richard III.

Reid, Stephen. “Othello's Jealousy.” American Imago 25, no. 3 (fall 1968): 274-93.

Psychoanalytic study of Othello suggesting that the drama's protagonist suffers from Freudian “delusional jealousy.”

Siegel, Paul N. “Leontes a Jealous Tyrant.” Review of English Studies 1, no. 4 (October 1950): 302-07.

Compares Leontes of The Winter's Tale with Shakespeare's Richard III and Macbeth, contending that they all are depictions of the “jealous tyrant” figure.

Thorne, J. P. “The Grammar of Jealousy: A Note on the Character of Leontes.” Edinburgh Studies in English and Scots, edited by A. J. Aitken, Angus McIntosh, and Hermann Pálsson, pp. 55-65. London: Longman, 1971.

Contends that Shakespeare depicted Leontes as delusional and jealous through the use of peculiar syntax in his speeches of Act I, scene ii of The Winter's Tale.

Wilson, Rob. “Othello: Jealousy as Mimetic Contagion.” American Imago 44, no. 3 (fall 1987): 213-33.

Concentrates on Iago's contribution to Othello as a drama of male jealousy and unrestrained desire.