Othello: Context

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Othello: Context

Othello provides excellent examples how to think about a Renaissance play on its own stage. The main interaction is between the three main figures of Othello, Iago and Desdemona, with Iago occupying the role of the machiavellian manipulator.

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Painting of Desdemona and Othello by William Blake
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Portrait of Machiavelli
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References/further reading:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/othello...

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/othello/

And if you want to know more about Renaissance performance techniques: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic...

Sections:
Introduction / Video overview: (00:00)
Setting: (1:13)
The figure of Othello: (3:00)
Gender relations: (5:09)
Studying the play / Renaissance performance techniques: (7:16)
Outro: (15:42)