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"One of the four great tragedies--alongside 'Hamlet,' 'King Lear,' and 'Macbeth'--'Othello' is among the darkest of Shakespeare's plays, illumining the shadows of the gloomiest recesses of the human psyche and serving as a damning indictment of the w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (Author)
Other Authors: Pearce, Joseph, 1961- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco [California] : Ignatius Press, [2014]
Series:Ignatius critical editions.
Subjects:
Othello > (Fictitious character from Shakespeare) > Drama.
Interracial marriage > Drama.
Jealousy > Drama.
Muslims > Drama.
Venice (Italy) > Drama.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > Othello.
Tragedies (Drama)
Fiction.
Table of Contents:
  • A "monstrous birth" brought "to the world's light" : the assault on authority and the darkening of the soul in Othello / Robert Carballo (pages 173-182)
  • Is Venice in Shakespeare's Othello a racist society? / Robert C. Evans (pages 183-197)
  • The unreason of Iago : a close reading of the beginning of Othello / Jay Graham (pages 199-212)
  • Some observations on Othello, act 1 / Michael Hanke (pages 213-225)
  • Shakespeare's Othello and man's fallen nature / Michael M. Jordan (pages 227-242)
  • Othello as meta-drama / Peter Milward, S.J. (pages 243-255)
  • Othello--the classical-medieval synthesis, and the platonic concept of the soul / Rebecca Munro (pages 257-272).