ENGL 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Edmund Kean, Alan Seymour, Sub-Saharan Africa
5 May 2019
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Othello: tradition to play him in black face like he was from sub-saharan africa, old art about othello show a lot of fear of misagination, misagination: sexual relationships between people of different races. If desdemona has children with othello they will be monstrous. Views on the relationship between othello and desdemona: likening of losing the handkerchief to a white woman falling in love with a black man, mary preston: says that othello was actually white. She can"t read the play the way. Othello: after this, mainly black actors played othello, david harewood: the first black actor to play othello in the london theatre. The cost of excluding race was too much in the end. Adaptation of shakespeare and why we do it: adpatation: changing the setting, casting choices, time period, etc. while maintaining the lines or at least feel of the play.
