Othello
Texts and Contexts
First Edition
Publication Date: December 27, 2006
Paperback ISBN: 9780312398989
Pages: 448
ISBN: 9780312398989
Othello
Introduction
William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice
(Edited by David Bevington)
PART TWO
Cultural Contexts
1. Race and Religion
John Leo Africanus, From A Geographical History of Africa
The Lady and the Blackamoor
The Ottoman Empire and “Turning Turk”
Richard Knolles, From The General History of the Turks
Giles Fletcher the Elder, From Policy of the Turkish Empire
Church of England, Prayer for the Preservation of Those Christians and Their
Countries That Are Now Invaded by the Turk
Nicholas Udall, From Respublica
Geneva Bible, Verses on the White Devil
Martin Luther, From A Commentary upon the Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians
The Myth of Venice
Dedicatory Poems, From The Commonwealth and Government of Venice
Venice: The Virgin/Whore
Thomas Coryate, From Coryats Crudities
Cyprus: The Birthplace of Love
Richard Knolles, From General History of the Turks
James VI and I, From The Lepanto
Aleppo
Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, From His Discourse of Voyages into the East and
West Indies
Africa and Barbary
John Leo Africanus, From A Geographical History of Africa
Juan Luis Vives, From Instruction of a Christian Woman
William Whately, From A Bride-bush: Or, A Wedding Sermon
Ste. B, From Counsel to the Husband: To the Wife Instruction
Hannah Woolley, From The Gentlewoman’s Companion: Or, a Guide to the
Female Sex
Martin Parker, From The Married Man’s Lesson: Or, A Dissuasion from Jealousy
From Cuckold’s Haven
Thomas Proctor, From Of the Knowledge and Conduct of Wars
Thomas and Leonard Digges, From An Arithmetical Military Treatise, Named
Stratioticos
Thomas Styward, From The Pathway to Martial Discipline
John Taylor, From A Valorous and Perilous Sea-fight Fought with Three Turkish
Ships
Pierre de La Primaudaye, From The French Academy
Love and Jealousy
Thomas Buoni, From Problems of Beauty and All Human Affections
Benedetto Varchi, From The Blazon of Jealousy
Francis Bacon, From The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
Thomas Rymer, From A Short View of Tragedy
Charlotte Ramsey Lennox, From Shakespeare Illustrated
William Winter, From Othello: As Presented by Edwin Booth
Staging Women
Thomas Jordan, From The Nursery of Novelties in a Variety of Poetry
Paula Vogel, From Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief
Blackface Minstrelsy
Desdemonum: An Ethiopian Burlesque, in Three Scenes
Thomas Dartmouth Rice, From Otello: A Burlesque Opera
Postcolonial Encounters
Tayeb Salih, From Season of Migration to the North
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