Othello / Lois Potter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Potter, Lois.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Shakespeare in performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Othello (Fictitious character from Shakespeare).

Othello.

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976.

Robeson, Paul.

African American actors.

Muslims in literature.

Black people in literature.

Tragedy.

Physical Description:

xiii, 242 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002.

Summary:

Lois Potter traces "Othello 's acting tradition as it affected the playing of Othello, Desdemona, characters originally played by a white actor and a boy, respectively, and Iago. She examines the stage and screen versions of the play, including a full study of Paul Robeson's 1943 avatar of the character, that reflect or challenge current views about race and gender.

Contents:

Part 1 Othello before Robeson

I Othello's play 24

II Desdemona's play 48

III Iago's play 68

IV Interval: alternative Othellos in the modern age 86

Part 2 Robeson and after

V Othello becomes contemporary: Ira Aldridge and Paul Robeson 106

VI The Robeson legacy I: white Othellos on film, stage and television 135

VII The Robeson legacy II: casting Othello, 1960-97 157

VIII Othello at the end of the century: sex and soldiers 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index.

ISBN:

071902725X

0719027268

OCLC:

49525884