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

precise configurations of these spaces, it is important that in a world where everyone seems to have a place to be, the Moor is ...

These requests suggest the Moor as someone who is “to be found” when the state comes calling.^57 But rhetorically Othello turns ...

with no explicit mark or measure of citizenship, seems remarkably secure. We do need to make a distinction between Othello’s soc ...

and against the aggrieved Venetian senator as Moor “of Venice” and to have the last word on a marriage. To understand Othello as ...

unwittingly, by choice or force, having or knowing no other way in; it also raises the issue of where Shakespeare stands as his ...

as from (what is almost the same) who Venice expects him to be in the pres- ent of the play. Here is a moment within the dramati ...

at least one daughter, maybe two ( 1. 3. 142 , 171 ). Hence, to clear his name, he exoticizes neither himself nor his past; he s ...

Puttenham, as Madhavi Menon has suggested—allows the converse possibil- ity of familiarizing the unfamiliar, the image of “devou ...

ing the world to Venice and Venice to the world, he propels an interactive process that knows no cultural bounds. Othello, of co ...

ticular “Moor of Venice” as the ineluctable destiny of theMoor, any Moor, in Venice. We could imagine, that is, that Shakespeare ...

love” ( 3. 3. 447 , 446 ). In the end, the more Iago talks, the more Othello’s dark- ness seems to become a sign and source of t ...

will to do in Venice, and driven at least as much by attraction to a sexually fluent Florentine as by repulsion from the Moor. I ...

play insists that we look beyond the cultural narratives and stereotypes that could ideologically subdue and categorically undo ...

would be believed in Venice, his “occupation” “gone,” the play does not col- lapse his identity as a stranger into the idea of e ...

ello gears up to press his cause, bantering about the “heraldry of hands” and finding her hand too “liberal,” “hot, hot and mois ...

ity that things—and husbands—change, that there are more things in heaven and earth than have been dreamt of in her philosophy. ...

at his death Gratiano will “keep the house / And seize upon the fortunes of the Moor,” since as Brabantio’s brother, he is also ...

members that her “mother had a maid called Barbary” and that Barbary sang a “ ‘Song of Willow’ ” that “expressed her fortune” ( ...

(Aaron), who is fashioned on a Jew (Barabas) who resembles a Turk (Ithamore). Do what he can to hate one Moor, Iago necessarily ...

conclusion A Brave New World In 1611, someseven years after the emergence of Othello,The Tempestwould turn to a new dramatic spa ...