
Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. The primary documents contextualize race and religion in the Renaissance, gender relations, military life, the passions, the notion of the "Other" in early modern England, and the afterlife of "Othello" on the stage. Race and religion - Othellos sword and English sexuality - Blackness and Moors - From the decades of the new world or West India /. Othello, the Moor of Venice : texts and contexts (Book othello texts and contexts the.
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The text includes tracts on marriage, travel literature, military manuals, maps, ballads, royal proclamations, early modern descriptions of Africa and the Middle East, nineteenth-century scripts for performances of Othello, and scenes from contemporary re-envisionings of the play. 1 OTHELLO TEXTS AND CONTEXTS THE BEDFORD SHAKESPEARE SERIES. This edition of "Othello" reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by six sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare. The primary documents contextualize race and religion in the Renaissance, gender relations, military life, the passions, the notion of the 'Other' in early modern England, and the afterlife of 'Othello' on the stage. The text includes tracts on marriage, travel literature, military manuals, maps, ballads, royal proclamations, early modern descriptions of Africa and the Middle East, nineteenth-century scripts for performances of Othello, and scenes from contemporary re-envisionings of the play. This edition of 'Othello' reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by six sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare. These maps were published in Best’s A True Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discoverie (1578). Martin’s Press, 2006) offers readers visual and verbal textual materials that illuminate themes in Shakespeare’s play Othello: The Moor of Venice.Paperback. A true discourse of the late voyages of discovery View images from this item (2) This copy of the first account of Frobishers three voyages is by George Best, who sailed with him, is extremely rare in that it contains the two maps. Her second book, Othello: Texts and Contexts (Bedford/St. Ideas for using this resource: Use it as a handy guide to the site’s rich sources on Othello.

This groundbreaking work on racial discourses in sixteenth and seventeenth century Britain helped generate a new wave of scholarship on race in Shakespeare and Renaissance/Early Modern texts. This summary of sources is a quick and easy way to explore the contexts for Othello from sex in early modern Venice and race in Shakespeare’s London, to Coleridge’s critique of the play and Ira Aldridge’s ground-breaking performance. Her book, Things of Darkness, published in 1996 by Cornell University Press, used a black feminist approach to interpret Renaissance literature. Each text features introductory material to create context. Her research and teaching cover Renaissance/Early Modern Literature and Culture, Critical Race Theory, Black Feminist Studies, Slavery Studies, Visual Culture, Food Studies, and Digital Humanities. Othello - Parallel Text By placing the original text and a modern translation on facing. Hall holds a doctorate in sixteenth and seventeenth century English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Othello: Texts and Contexts (The Bedford Shakespeare Series) 1st edition by Shakespeare, William (2006) Paperback on. Hall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, Dr.

This lecture discussed Afrodiasporic appropriations of Othello.

Hall on June 27, 2016, as part of the 2016 Anniversary Lecture Series. Othello: Texts and Contexts (The Bedford Shakespeare Library) ISBN 9780312398989 0312398980 by Shakespeare., William - buy, sell or rent this book for the.

For other articles about Shakespeare's Birthday, see Shakespeare's Birthday (disambiguation).įor more past programming from the Folger Institute, please see the article Folger Institute scholarly programs archive. This edition of Othello reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by six sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations. This article is about the annual Shakespeare Birthday lecture.
