Comparative Drama articles from March 2001

Comparative Drama archives from March 2001

Flattery in Shakespeare's Othello: the relevance of Plutarch and Sir Thomas Elyot.
March 22, 2001... "How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend" is the title of one of Plutarch's most famous Moralia, but the phrase could just as easily be the subtitle of Shakespeare's Othello. Flattery and false friendship were topics that preoccupied many people...

Intercession, detraction, and just judgment in Othello.(Shakespeare's play)
March 22, 2001... Cassio: O, behold! The riches of the ship is come on shore! You men of Cyprus, let her have your knees. Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven, Before, behind thee,...

Emblems of folly in the first Othello: renaissance blackface, moor's coat, and "muckender".(Shakespeare's play)
March 22, 2001... O murderous coxcomb, what should such a fool Do with so good a wife? Emilia in Othello (5.2.231-32) Critics have struggled to account for the disturbing comic elements in Othello. Most famously, at one extreme, the...

"Othello/me": racial drag and the pleasures of boundary-crossing with Othello.(Shakespeare's play)
March 22, 2001... In Othello, the boundary between Self and Other is famously, and perilously, permeable. Othello's assimilationist efforts to claim a selfhood within the Venetian community leads, for him, to a fatal hybridity: he ends, as Ania Loomba and others...

David Scott Kastan, Shakespeare After Theory. (Reviews).
March 22, 2001... David Scott Kastan, Shakespeare After Theory. New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. 264. $70.00 casebound, $19.95 paperbound. I Theory is dead--if the title is the message of David Scott Kastan, English professor at Columbia University,...

Edward Pechter, Othello and Interpretive Traditions. (Reviews).
March 22, 2001... Edward Pechter, Othello and Interpretive Traditions. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 255. $32.95. Edward Pechter's book may be one of the best places for any nonspecialist reader of Othello to begin a serious...