Othello "Monstrous birth" brought "to the world's light." Is Venice in Shakespeare's Othello a racist society? Unreason of Iago. Some observations on Othello, act 1. Shakespeare's Othello and man's fallen nature. Othello as meta-drama. Othello--the classical-medieval synthesis, and the platonic concept of the soul.
Notes:
Introduction by Joseph Pearce. "This edition follows the Alexander Text (named after the Shakespeare scholar Peter Alexander)"--Page xxxi. Includes bibliographical references.
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).
Summary:
"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 world in which it was written. A cautionary tale of the destructiveness of sin and the ruinous consequences of bad philosophy, 'Othello' seems to express Shakespeare's rage at the cynicism and brutality of the age in which he lived. From the Machiavellian menace of Iago to the blind and prideful jealously of Othello, this classic of world literature shows us the shadow falling over a society that has turned its back on the light and life of virtue."--Back cover.
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