Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey 75
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Understanding Iago, An Italian Film Adaptation Of Othello: Clientelism, Corruption, Politics
- Circumventing Marginality: The Curious Case Of India’s Othello Screen Adaptations
- Othello’s Kin: Legacy, Belonging And The Fortunes Of The Moor
- ‘More Fair Than Black’: Othellos On British Radio
- ‘This Fair Paper’: Othello And The Artists’ Book
- Othello: A Dialogue With The Built Environment
- ‘[A] Maid Called Barbary’: Othello, Moorish Maidservants And The Black Presence In Early Modern England
- ‘The Moor’s Abused By Some Most Villainous Knave, Some Base Notorious Knave, Some Scurvy Fellow’: Legal Spaces, Racial Trauma And Shakespeare’s The Tragedy Of Othello, The Moor Of Venice
- Ben Jonson’s Sejanus And Shakespeare’s Othello: Two Plays Performed By The King’s Men In 1603
- Iago And The Clown: Disassembling The Vice In Othello
- Pitying Desdemona In Folio Othello: Race, Gender And The Willow Song
- Desdemona’s Honest Friend
- Suffering Ecstasy: Othello And The Drama Of Displacement
- Othello’s Sympathies: Emotion, Agency And Identification
- Warning The Stage: Shakespeare’s Mid-Scene Entrance Conventions
- Looking For Perdita In Ali Smith’s Summer
- Grafted To The Moor: Anglo-Spanish Dynastic Marriage And Miscegenated Whiteness In The Winter’s Tale
- Rhyme, History And Memory In A Mirror For Magistrates And Henry VI
- ‘Bad’ Love Lyrics And Poetic Hypocrisy From Gascoigne To Benson’s Shakespeare
- Viola’s Telemachy
- New Analogical Evidence For Cymbeline’s Folkloric Composition In The Medieval Icelandic Ála Flekks Saga
- ‘But When Extremities Speak’: Harley Granville-Barker, Coriolanus, The World Wars And The State Of Exception
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2021
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2021
- Professional Shakespeare Productions In The British Isles, January–December 2020
- The Year’s Contribution To Shakespeare Studies
- 1. Critical Studies
- 2. Studies in Shakespeare in Performance, 2020–2021
- 3. Editions and Textual Studies
- Abstracts Of Articles In Shakespeare Survey 75
- Index
- References
1. - Critical Studies
from The Year’s Contribution To Shakespeare Studies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 August 2022
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Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey 75
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Understanding Iago, An Italian Film Adaptation Of Othello: Clientelism, Corruption, Politics
- Circumventing Marginality: The Curious Case Of India’s Othello Screen Adaptations
- Othello’s Kin: Legacy, Belonging And The Fortunes Of The Moor
- ‘More Fair Than Black’: Othellos On British Radio
- ‘This Fair Paper’: Othello And The Artists’ Book
- Othello: A Dialogue With The Built Environment
- ‘[A] Maid Called Barbary’: Othello, Moorish Maidservants And The Black Presence In Early Modern England
- ‘The Moor’s Abused By Some Most Villainous Knave, Some Base Notorious Knave, Some Scurvy Fellow’: Legal Spaces, Racial Trauma And Shakespeare’s The Tragedy Of Othello, The Moor Of Venice
- Ben Jonson’s Sejanus And Shakespeare’s Othello: Two Plays Performed By The King’s Men In 1603
- Iago And The Clown: Disassembling The Vice In Othello
- Pitying Desdemona In Folio Othello: Race, Gender And The Willow Song
- Desdemona’s Honest Friend
- Suffering Ecstasy: Othello And The Drama Of Displacement
- Othello’s Sympathies: Emotion, Agency And Identification
- Warning The Stage: Shakespeare’s Mid-Scene Entrance Conventions
- Looking For Perdita In Ali Smith’s Summer
- Grafted To The Moor: Anglo-Spanish Dynastic Marriage And Miscegenated Whiteness In The Winter’s Tale
- Rhyme, History And Memory In A Mirror For Magistrates And Henry VI
- ‘Bad’ Love Lyrics And Poetic Hypocrisy From Gascoigne To Benson’s Shakespeare
- Viola’s Telemachy
- New Analogical Evidence For Cymbeline’s Folkloric Composition In The Medieval Icelandic Ála Flekks Saga
- ‘But When Extremities Speak’: Harley Granville-Barker, Coriolanus, The World Wars And The State Of Exception
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2021
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2021
- Professional Shakespeare Productions In The British Isles, January–December 2020
- The Year’s Contribution To Shakespeare Studies
- 1. Critical Studies
- 2. Studies in Shakespeare in Performance, 2020–2021
- 3. Editions and Textual Studies
- Abstracts Of Articles In Shakespeare Survey 75
- Index
- References
Summary
Following the pulling down of the statue of slave-trader, Edward Colston, in Bristol in the summer of 2020, in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, the historian David Olusoga observed, ‘the problem isn’t the statue; it’s the pedestal’. At a similar moment, the question of Shakespeare’s function as a potential symbol of racial oppression encouraged Ayanna Thompson to ask the question, ‘Is Shakespeare a statue?’ Some of the most valuable scholarship in Shakespeare produced this year asks directly or obliquely what kind of oppressive function Shakespeare-as-statue serves, and interrogates the kind of pedestals which have placed him there.
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- Shakespeare Survey 75Othello, pp. 361 - 374Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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