Shakespeare's Othello: Introduction to context, characters and themes | Shakespeare Play by Play

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This is an introduction to Shakespeare's Othello's context, themes, and characters. This is the information you should know before you start the text.

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References
All quotations and citations from the play use the Folgers online text:
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Boose, Lynda E. “Othello’s Handkerchief: ‘The Recognizance and Pledge of Love.’” English Literary Renaissance 5, no. 3 (1975): 360–74. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43446828.
Evans, R. C. (2015). Othello: A Critical Reader. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Grennan, E. (1987). The Women’s Voices in “Othello”: Speech, song, silence. Shakespeare Quarterly, 38(3), 275. https://doi.org/10.2307/2870503
Halio, J. (2013). Reading Othello Backwards. In Othello (pp. 390–402). Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/97802030556...
Jardine, L. (1987). Cultural Confusion and Shakespeare’s Learned Heroines: “These are old paradoxes.” Shakespeare Quarterly, 38(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.2307/2870398
Kolin, P. (2013). Othello: Critical essays. Routledge.
Newman, K. (1994). From ‘And Wash the Ethiop white’: Femininity and the Monstrous in Othello. In Shakespeare: Othello. Bloomsbury Academic. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/97813503927...
Orlin, L. C. (2014). Othello: The State of Play. A&C Black.
Robison, M. B. (2011). The Power of Words: Othello as storyteller. Storytelling, Self, Society, 7(1), 63–71. https://doi.org/10.1353/sss.2011.a813214
Shakespeare, W. (2020). Othello: Third series. Arden.
Shakespeare, W. (2004). Othello. Folger’s Library. https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakes...
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...
Stempel, D. (1969). The Silence of Iago. PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 84(2), 252–263. https://doi.org/10.2307/1261282
Strickler, B. (2005). Sex in the city: An ecocritical perspective on the place of gender and race in othello. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 12(2), 119–137. https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/12.2.119
Vanita, R. (1994). “Proper” men and “fallen” women: The unprotectedness of wives in Othello. Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 34(2), 341. https://doi.org/10.2307/450905