Speaking of the Moor : From "Alcazar" to "Othello"

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Speaking of the Moor From Alcazar to Othello Emily C. Bartels university of pennsylvania press philadelphia ...

Copyright © 2008 University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of review o ...

For Emma Smith ...

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contents introduction On Sitting Down to Read OthelloOnce Again 1 chapter one Enter Barbary: The Battle of Alcazarand “the World ...

conclusion A Brave New World 191 notes 195 bibliography 227 index 243 acknowledgments 251 viii contents ...

introduction On Sitting Down to Read OthelloOnce Again “Speak of meas I am; nothing extenuate, / Nor aught set down in malice” ( ...

there may be none. Before “this” lies the (Venetian) lover, an Indian, maybe Judean, and Arabian trees; after lies the pat dicho ...

the excessively loving, the “easily jealous” and the “extremely perplexed,” the Turk and the non-Turk. In the final moments, the ...

been able to say fully or finally what “the Moor” represents.^5 Every critic from Jones on has had to somehow confront the “noto ...

any single set of terms (and in the plays I am focusing on, it is “he”). The “no- torious indeterminacy” that seems to mar the M ...

noted, and stands in Belmont beside a group of noble Europeans, no more or less likely a match for the wealthy Portia than they. ...

Divels” Eleazar ( 1. 1. 126 ), provides the official rationale for the incrimination and banishment of allMoors. And while Othel ...

states and populations, Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa “impose[d]...a general explanation, on the whole place,” as John Ryle ...

the king’s favorite by the repulsive royal stepson, Cloten. In the early modern period lineages such as these also fell under th ...

ing to terms with the historical and literary figure of the Moor, each genera- tion of critics, from Eldred Jones on, has framed ...

tion, glossing over the fact that not all Moors were Africans and not all Africans, Moors. The association of Moors with Africa ...