Othello and Race | Shakespeare Play by Play

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This an analysis of Shakespeare's play Othello and address the ways Shakespeare participates in and subverts the expectations of his early modern audience. This video analyzing early modern understandings of race.

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References
All quotations and citations from the play use the Folgers online text:
https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakes...

Butler, J. (1990). Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. Routledge.
Chaves, W. da S. (2013). Fields, Karen E.; Fields, Barbara J. Racecraft: The soul of inequality in American Life. Revista Brasileira de História, 33(65), 441–445. https://doi.org/10.1590/s0102-0188201...
Hall, K. F. (1995). Things of Darkness: Economies of race and gender in early modern England. Cornell University Press.
Hendricks, M. (2023). ‘I saw them in my visage.’ In White People in Shakespeare. The Arden Shakespeare. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/97813502836...
Little, A. L. (1993). “An Essence that’s Not Seen”: The Primal Scene of Racism in Othello. Shakespeare Quarterly, 44(3), 304. https://doi.org/10.2307/2871421
Little, A. L., Jr. (2023). White People in Shakespeare: Essays on race, culture and the elite. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Ndiaye, N. (2023). Scripts of blackness: Early modern performance culture and the making of race. Raceb4race: Critical Race Stud.
Neill, M. (1998). “Mulattos,” “Blacks,” and “Indian Moors”: Othello and early modern constructions of human difference. Shakespeare Quarterly, 49(4), 361. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902233
Orlin, L. C. (2014). Othello: The state of play. Arden.
Smith, I. (2014). Othello’s Black Handkerchief. In Othello: The State of Play (pp. 95–120). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/97814725779...
Smith, I. (2022). Black Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press.
Thompson, A. (2021). The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race. Cambridge University Press.
Vaughan, V. M. (2005). Performing blackness on English stages, 1500-1800. Cambridge University Press.

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