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Book The Masks of Othello    Three Centuries of Actors and Critics

Download or read book The Masks of Othello Three Centuries of Actors and Critics written by Marvin Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Masks of Othello

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  • Author : Marvin Rosenberg
  • Publisher : University of Delaware Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780874134810
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book The Masks of Othello written by Marvin Rosenberg and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what Norman Sanders has termed [a] now classic study, noted Shakespearean Marvin Rosenberg sets out to discover how the complex, troubled characters of the play have been interpreted by actors and critics from Shakespeare's time to the present.

Book The Masks of Othello

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  • Author : Marvin Rosenberg
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1900
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Masks of Othello written by Marvin Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Masks of Othello

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  • Author : Marvin Rosenberg
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-08-30
  • ISBN : 9781684220205
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Masks of Othello written by Marvin Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2016 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In what is now considered a classic study, noted Shakespearean Marvin Rosenberg sets out to discover how the complex, troubled characters of the play have been interpreted by actors and critics from Shakespeare's time to the present. Rosenberg's study of the successive stage editings of Othello--some of them to reduce playing time, others demanded by the taste and moral sense of each new age--provides a running commentary of social and cultural history, and shows how those cuttings affected, as well as revealed, the actors' concepts of the characters. "Othello" is the most erotic, the most sensual in language and imagery of the tragedies, and its heavily sexual atmosphere, so suitable to the seventeenth century, offended later cultures. The eighteenth century tried to "refine" it, and the nineteenth, particularly the age of Victoria, to refine it even further, but the essential form of the play survived.--From the Dust Jacket. Contents: Part. 1. The beginning. The actor's share -- Othello in the Restoration -- pt. 2. The eighteenth century -- The eighteenth century actors -- pt. 3. The nineteenth century. Kean -- Mcready, Fechter, Irving -- Booth -- Forrest -- Salvini -- The Victorian Iago -- The Victorian Desdemona -- pt. 4. The twentieth century. The modern Othello -- The modern Iago -- pt. 5. Othello and the critics. In defense of Iago -- In defense of Othello -- In defense of Desdemona -- In defense of the play: I -- In defense of the play: II -- Appendix: A kind word for Bowdler.

Book The Masks of Othello

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  • Author : Marvin Rosenberg
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book The Masks of Othello written by Marvin Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Othello  Second Edition   Norton Critical Editions

Download or read book Othello Second Edition Norton Critical Editions written by William Shakespeare and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I wanted an edition of Othello that had the necessary footnotes, background material, and a good selection of recent critical articles that would be accessible to students and would spark class discussions. This was it.” —Deborah Montuori, Shippensburg University This Norton Critical Edition includes: ·The First Folio text (1623). · An introduction, explanatory footnotes, note on the text, and textual notes by Edward Pechter. · Fifteen illustrations. · Giraldi Cinthio’s sixteenth-century story in its entirety, which Shakespeare used for both the plot and many details of Othello. · A generous selection of interpretive responses to Othello from its origins to the present day, including—new to the Second Edition—those by Stanley Cavell and Lois Potter. Edward Pechter’s popular theatrical and critical overview of Othello has been significantly expanded. · An updated Selected Bibliography.

Book Othello  Second International Student Edition   Norton Critical Editions

Download or read book Othello Second International Student Edition Norton Critical Editions written by William Shakespeare and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I wanted an edition of Othello that had the necessary footnotes, background material, and a good selection of recent critical articles that would be accessible to students and would spark class discussions. This was it.” —Deborah Montuori, Shippensburg University This Norton Critical Edition includes: ·The First Folio text (1623). · An introduction, explanatory footnotes, note on the text, and textual notes by Edward Pechter. · Fifteen illustrations. · Giraldi Cinthio’s sixteenth-century story in its entirety, which Shakespeare used for both the plot and many details of Othello. · A generous selection of interpretive responses to Othello from its origins to the present day, including—new to the Second Edition—those by Stanley Cavell and Lois Potter. Edward Pechter’s popular theatrical and critical overview of Othello has been significantly expanded. · An updated Selected Bibliography.

Book William Shakespeare s Othello

Download or read book William Shakespeare s Othello written by Andrew Hadfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a broad-ranging guide to Othello, providing an introduction to the contexts of the play, the range of critical responses to the play and the play in performance.

Book Shakespeare   s Invention of Othello

Download or read book Shakespeare s Invention of Othello written by Martin Elliott and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-06-18 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Othello

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  • Author : Lena Cowen Orlin
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2003-09-28
  • ISBN : 1137115483
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Othello written by Lena Cowen Orlin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-09-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its focus on gender, power, race, sexuality, and violence, Othello is an important site for new critical approaches to the study of Shakespeare's works. Both criticism and culture are represented in this collection of recent essays which provides readers with examples of feminist, new-historicist, cultural materialist, deconstructive, and post-colonial perspectives on Othello. With discussions of recent stage and screen productions, and analysis of the use of the play in such contemporary events as the O.J. Simpson murder trial, this compelling critical volume presents a wide variety of ways of understanding the continuing significance of Shakespeare's play both in his own time and in ours.

Book Visions of Venice in Shakespeare

Download or read book Visions of Venice in Shakespeare written by Laura Tosi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the growing critical relevance of Shakespeare's two Venetian plays and a burgeoning bibliography on both The Merchant of Venice and Othello, few books have dealt extensively with the relationship between Shakespeare and Venice. Setting out to offer new perspectives to a traditional topic, this timely collection fills a gap in the literature, addressing the new historical, political and economic questions that have been raised in the last few years. The essays in this volume consider Venice a real as well as symbolic landscape that needs to be explored in its multiple resonances, both in Shakespeare's historical context and in the later tradition of reconfiguring one of the most represented cities in Western culture. Shylock and Othello are there to remind us of the dark sides of the myth of Venice, and of the inescapable fact that the issues raised in the Venetian plays are tremendously topical; we are still haunted by these theatrical casualties of early modern multiculturalism.

Book Othello

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  • Author : Lois Potter
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2002-09-07
  • ISBN : 9780719027260
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Othello written by Lois Potter and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lois Potter traces Othello 's acting tradition as it affected the playing of Othello, Desdemona, characters originally played by a white actor and a boy, respectively, and Iago. She examines the stage and screen versions of the play, including a full study of Paul Robeson's 1943 avatar of the character, that reflect or challenge current views about race and gender.

Book The Tragedy of Othello  the Moor of Venice

Download or read book The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice written by William Shakespeare and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Lyman Kittredge’s insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging accomplishments, all of which are reflected in the valuable notes in each volume. These new editions have specific emphasis on the performance histories of the plays (on stage and screen). Features of each edition include: - The original introduction to the Kittredge Edition - Editor’s Introduction to the Focus Edition. An overview on major themes of the plays, and sections on the play’s performance history on stage and screen. - Explanatory Notes. The explanatory notes either expand on Kittredge’s superb glosses, or, in the case of plays for which he did not write notes, give the needed explanations for Shakespeare’s sometimes demanding language. - Performance notes. These appear separately and immediately below the textual footnotes and include discussions of noteworthy stagings of the plays, issues of interpretation, and film and stage choices. - How to read the play as Performance Section. A discussion of the written play vs. the play as performed and the various ways in which Shakespeare’s words allow the reader to envision the work "off the page." - Comprehensive Timeline. Covering major historical events (with brief annotations) as well as relevant details from Shakespeare’s life. Some of the Chronologies include time chronologies within the plays. - Topics for Discussion and Further Study Section. Critical Issues: Dealing with the text in a larger context and considerations of character, genre, language, and interpretative problems. Performance Issues: Problems and intricacies of staging the play connected to chief issues discussed in the Focus Editions’ Introduction. - Select Bibliography & Filmography Each New Kittredge edition also includes screen grabs from major productions, for comparison and scene study.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy written by Michael Neill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy is a collection of fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world, bringing together some of the best-known writers in the field with a strong selection of younger Shakespeareans. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by a playwright who was himself an experiencedactor. The collection is organised in five sections. The opening section places the plays in a variety of illuminating contexts, exploring questions of genre, and examining ways in which later generations ofcritics have shaped our idea of 'Shakespearean' tragedy. The second section is devoted to current textual issues; while the third offers new critical readings of each of the tragedies. This is set beside a group of essays that deal with performance history, with screen productions, and with versions devised for the operatic stage, as well as with twentieth and twenty-first century re-workings of Shakespearean tragedy. The book's final section seeks to expand readers' awareness of Shakespeare'sglobal reach, tracing histories of criticism and performance across the world. Offering the richest and most diverse collection of approaches to Shakespearean tragedy currently available, the Handbookwill be an indispensable resource for students both undergraduate and graduate levels, while the lively and provocative character of its essays make will it required reading for teachers of Shakespeare everywhere.

Book The Routledge Guide to William Shakespeare

Download or read book The Routledge Guide to William Shakespeare written by Robert Shaughnessy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demystifying and contextualising Shakespeare for the twenty-first century, this book offers both an introduction to the subject for beginners as well as an invaluable resource for more experienced Shakespeareans. In this friendly, structured guide, Robert Shaughnessy: introduces Shakespeare’s life and works in context, providing crucial historical background looks at each of Shakespeare’s plays in turn, considering issues of historical context, contemporary criticism and performance history provides detailed discussion of twentieth-century Shakespearean criticism, exploring the theories, debates and discoveries that shape our understanding of Shakespeare today looks at contemporary performances of Shakespeare on stage and screen provides further critical reading by play outlines detailed chronologies of Shakespeare’s life and works and also of twentieth-century criticism The companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/shaughnessy contains student-focused materials and resources, including an interactive timeline and annotated weblinks.

Book William Shakespeare  The Complete Works

Download or read book William Shakespeare The Complete Works written by William Shakespeare and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-04-21 with total page 1423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second Oxford edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works reconsiders every detail of their text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship. The nature and authority of the early documents are re-examined, and the canon and chronological order of composition freshly established. Spelling and punctuation are modernized, and there is a brief introduction to each work, as well as an illuminating and informative General Introduction. Included here for the first time is the play The Reign of King Edward the Third as well as the full text of Sir Thomas More. This new edition also features an essay on Shakespeare's language by David Crystal, and a bibliography of foundational works.