Othello, the Moor of Venice : texts and contexts /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Bedford/St. Martin's,
c2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Works. 1997.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- About the series
- About this volume
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- An Othello pre-text: Cinthio, from Gli Hecatommithi
- Part one: William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice
- Edited by David Bevington
- Part two: Cultural contexts
- Race and religion
- Othello's sword and English sexuality
- Blackness and Moors
- Peter Martyr, from the decades of the New World or West India
- George Best, from a true discourse of the late voyages of discovery
- Queen Elizabeth I, licensing Casper Van Senden to deport Negroes
- John Leo Africanus, from a geographical history of Africa
- Lady and the Blackamoor
- Ottoman empire and "turning Turk"
- Richard Knolles, from the general history of the Turks
- Giles Fletcher the elder, from policy of the Turkish empire
- Church of England, prayer for the preservation of those christians and their countries that are now invaded by the Turk
- Christianity
- Nicholas Udall, from respublica
- White devil
- Geneva bible, verses on the white devil
- Martin Luther, from a commentary upon the epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians
- Cultural geography
- Early modern Mediterranean
- Myth of Venice
- Dedicatory poems, from the commonwealth and government of Venice
- Fynes Moryson, from an itinerary
- Venice: Virgin/whore
- Thomas Coryate, from coryats crudities
- Cyprus: Birthplace of love
- Richard Knolles, from the general history of the Turks
- James VI and I, from the Lepanto
- Aleppo
- Jan Huyghen Van Linschoten, from his discourse of voyages into the East and West Indies
- Africa and barbary
- John Leo Africanus, from a geographical history of Africa
- Marriage and the household
- Baldassare Castiglione, from the book of the courtier
- Juan Luis Vives, from instruction of a christian woman
- William Whately, from a bride-bush: or, a wedding sermon
- Ste. B, from counsel to the husband: to the wife instruction
- Hannah Woolley, from the gentlewoman's companion; or, a guide to the female sex
- Martin Parker, from the married man's lesson: or, a dissuasion from jealousy
- From the cuckhold's haven
- Masculinity and military life
- Robert Barret, from the theory and practice of modern wars
- Thomas Proctor, from of the knowledge and conduct of wars
- Thomas and Leonard Digges, from an arithmetical military treatise, named stratioticos
- Thomas Styward, from the pathway to martial discipline
- John Taylor, from a valorous and perilous sea-fight fought with three Turkish ships
- Passions
- Thomas Wright, from the passions of the mind in general
- Pierre de la Primaudaye, from the French academy
- Love and jealousy
- Thomas Buoni, from problems of beauty and all human affections
- Benedetto Varchi, from the blazon of jealousy
- Robert Burton, from anatomy of melancholy
- Francis Bacon, from the essays or counsels, civil and moral
- Encounters with Othello
- Critical encounters
- Thomas Rymer, from a short view of tragedy
- Charlotte Ramsey Lennox, from Shakespeare illustrated
- William Winter, from othello: as presented by Edwin Booth
- Staging women
- Thomas Jordan, from the nursery of novelties in a variety of poetry
- Paula Vogel, from Desdemona: a play about a handkerchief
- Blackface minstrelsy
- Desdemonum: Ethiopian burlesque, in three scenes
- Thomas Dartmouth rice, from Otello: Burlesque opera
- Postcolonial encounters
- Tayeb Salih, from season of migration to the North
- Derek Walcott, goats and monkeys
- Bibliography
- Index.