ENGL10002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Protofeminism, Tragicomedy, Main Plot
1 Aug 2018
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Self-fashioning in terms of racial identity in the early modern period. Usually in shakespeare"s time, the play was known as "the moor of venice" Individuality of othello: the difference in identity in the embodied stereotype by the outsiders rather thn the person who bears the identity, versus the proper noun of othello. Desdemona: wooed through her greedy ear by othello. Laps up the stories of exotic travel that othello tells her. Cassio: equally vulnerable, he is drunk by alcohol (something goes into his body and is changed) Othello: metaphorically poisoned through the ear, corrupting normal rational judgements and temperament: despite the bodily markers of difference manages to assimilate to venice despite not being venetian, not regarded by his physical body. "evas asks a person of colour to perfor like a monkey. As othello is increasinly wracked by jealousy, he waves his arms out wide, makes contorted gestures and slaps his head like a mad chimp"
