ENGL2060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: First Folio, Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Orson Welles
Othello – Week Lecture 9
Othello:
• First performed 1604
• Quarto 1622
• First folio 1623
Sources:
• Cinthio (Hundred Tales) – 1565
• Leo Africanus – 1600
• Potted version of romantic comedy, to romance, moves to domestic comedy
• Heart of what is means to be different
• Ideas of race that develop in the 19th century
• Dot have siee as suh – came through discoveries
• Racism only emerging in this time
Race:
• Otherig of the ior raes
• Seen as the eternal enemy
Article:
• Much like makeup
• Absent needs to represent it
• Callaghan 76-7
• 84 – barred from showing femineity
• Very white makeup that comes to stand in for blackness
• Underlying it all is white masculinity
• Impersonation
Films:
• In black-face
• Orson Welles (1951) and Laurence Olivier (1965)
• 1995 – Lawrence Fishburne – finally using a black actor
Rymer:
• 1695
• Outward indicator of his villainy
• Cat e take seriously eause is has a lak a at the heart
• Needs to be a great man – does not involve state affairs
Racism:
• Others see Othello as a tragedy ut eas he at really e lak
Leah Marcus:
• 39
• Linked in largely a positive manner
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Document Summary
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