Othello: a contextual history
Shakespeare's Othello has exercised a powerful fascination over audiences for centuries with its intense portrayal of passionate love and destructive jealousy. This study is a major exercise in the historicization of Othello. Initially the author examines the early Jacobean context of the play,...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Shakespeare's Othello has exercised a powerful fascination over audiences for centuries with its intense portrayal of passionate love and destructive jealousy. This study is a major exercise in the historicization of Othello. Initially the author examines the early Jacobean context of the play, and the discourses which formed its writing. Circulating simultaneously in late Renaissance London were accounts of Mediterranean clashes between Turks and Venetians, treatises on the professionalization of England's military forces, depictions of North Africans and blackamoors, and narratives of jealous husbands who murdered their wives. In the centuries after 1604, productions of Othello stressed the contextual discourse that best reflected current cultural concerns The first section examines these four sets of contemporary writings and demonstrates how they were embedded in the text of Othello. The following chapters trace Othello's history on stage or in film in England and the United States from the Restoration to the late 1980s. Each chapter highlights particular productions or performers to demonstrate how and why elements from Shakespeare's text were emphasized or repressed. In the Restoration, for example, Othello was a gentleman and an officer, his characterization shaped by actors who had served in King Charles' army. During the Victorian period, in contrast, the Moor's private role of devoted husband was privileged over his occupation. When Paul Robeson performed Othello in 1930 and 1943-44, race was highlighted as the play's central issue. Othello is thus revealed as a significant shaper and major reflector of cultural meanings, as it participated in a complex negotiation between actors, critics, audiences, and the culture at large |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of illustrations page
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
ι
PART i: JACOBEAN CONTEXTS
ι
Global discourse: Venetians and Turks
13
2
Military discourse
:
knights and mercenaries
35
3
Racial discourse: black and white
51
4
Marital discourse
:
husbands and wives
71
PART Ii: REPRESENTATIONS
5
Othello in Restoration England
93
6
Amateur versus professional
:
the
Delaval
Othello
113
7
William Charles Macready and the domestic Othello
135
8
Salvini,
Irving, and the dissociation of intellect
158
9
The Ethiopian Moor
:
Paul Robeson s Othello
181
10
Orson Welles and the patriarchal eye
199
11
Othello for the
1990s:
Trevor Nunn s
1989
Royal
Shakespeare Company production
217
Conclusion
233
Index
238
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| spelling | Vaughan, Virginia Mason 1947- Verfasser (DE-588)133588343 aut Othello a contextual history Virginia Mason Vaughan 1. paperback ed. Cambridge u.a. Cambridge Univ. Press 1996 XIV, 243 S. Ill. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Shakespeare's Othello has exercised a powerful fascination over audiences for centuries with its intense portrayal of passionate love and destructive jealousy. This study is a major exercise in the historicization of Othello. Initially the author examines the early Jacobean context of the play, and the discourses which formed its writing. Circulating simultaneously in late Renaissance London were accounts of Mediterranean clashes between Turks and Venetians, treatises on the professionalization of England's military forces, depictions of North Africans and blackamoors, and narratives of jealous husbands who murdered their wives. In the centuries after 1604, productions of Othello stressed the contextual discourse that best reflected current cultural concerns The first section examines these four sets of contemporary writings and demonstrates how they were embedded in the text of Othello. The following chapters trace Othello's history on stage or in film in England and the United States from the Restoration to the late 1980s. Each chapter highlights particular productions or performers to demonstrate how and why elements from Shakespeare's text were emphasized or repressed. In the Restoration, for example, Othello was a gentleman and an officer, his characterization shaped by actors who had served in King Charles' army. During the Victorian period, in contrast, the Moor's private role of devoted husband was privileged over his occupation. When Paul Robeson performed Othello in 1930 and 1943-44, race was highlighted as the play's central issue. Othello is thus revealed as a significant shaper and major reflector of cultural meanings, as it participated in a complex negotiation between actors, critics, audiences, and the culture at large Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) / Othello ram Shakespeare, William <1564-1616> - Contemporary England Shakespeare, William <1564-1616> - Histoire scénique Shakespeare, William <1564-1616> - Mise en scène - Histoire ram Shakespeare, William <1564-1616> / Othello Shakespeare, William <1564-1616> Othello Shakespeare, William <1564-1616> Stage history Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Othello (DE-588)4099368-1 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1600-1700 Geschichte gnd rswk-swf Littérature et histoire - Angleterre - Histoire - 17e siècle Littérature et histoire - Grande-Bretagne - Histoire - 17e sciècle ram The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (Shakespeare) gtt Geschichte Interracial marriage in literature Jealousy in literature Literature and history England History 17th century Othello (Fictitious character) Kontext (DE-588)4165149-2 gnd rswk-swf Dramengestalt (DE-588)4113344-4 gnd rswk-swf Aufführung (DE-588)4143388-9 gnd rswk-swf Schauspielkunst (DE-588)4129090-2 gnd rswk-swf Zeithintergrund (DE-588)4128644-3 gnd rswk-swf Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Othello (DE-588)4099368-1 u Aufführung (DE-588)4143388-9 s Geschichte z DE-604 Dramengestalt (DE-588)4113344-4 s Schauspielkunst (DE-588)4129090-2 s Kontext (DE-588)4165149-2 s Zeithintergrund (DE-588)4128644-3 s 1\p DE-604 Digitalisierung UB Augsburg application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=006620190&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| topic | Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) / Othello ram Shakespeare, William <1564-1616> - Contemporary England Shakespeare, William <1564-1616> - Histoire scénique Shakespeare, William <1564-1616> - Mise en scène - Histoire ram Shakespeare, William <1564-1616> / Othello Shakespeare, William <1564-1616> Othello Shakespeare, William <1564-1616> Stage history Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Othello (DE-588)4099368-1 gnd Littérature et histoire - Angleterre - Histoire - 17e siècle Littérature et histoire - Grande-Bretagne - Histoire - 17e sciècle ram The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (Shakespeare) gtt Geschichte Interracial marriage in literature Jealousy in literature Literature and history England History 17th century Othello (Fictitious character) Kontext (DE-588)4165149-2 gnd Dramengestalt (DE-588)4113344-4 gnd Aufführung (DE-588)4143388-9 gnd Schauspielkunst (DE-588)4129090-2 gnd Zeithintergrund (DE-588)4128644-3 gnd |
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