from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern. This article attempts to find out and analyze Othello’s transition from an “honorary white” to a complete outcast due to the effect of both racial and sensual difference. Othello: The Oxford Shakespeare - The Moor of Venice (BOK). I offer the following brief inquiry into Shakespeares Othello as a preamble. There has been much criticism and speculation about Elizabethan views on race. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books. need for contemporary literary theory and criticism to attend more expan. Throughout the play, readers as well as audiences find Othello desperately striving to accommodate himself into the perfect Venetian of higher birth, to embrace the Venetian concepts of race, gender, religion, matrimony, sexuality and power and to break away from the typical characteristics of a stereotyped “Moor.” However, his blackness and his exotic notions of honesty as well as honor become indication of his otherness and alienation, which make him a target of derogatory and disrespectful remarks when his matrimony to Brabantio’s daughter was discovered. Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. William Shakespeare - Complete Works Home Works. Othello, the title character in one of William Shakespeare’s most well-known tragedies bearing the same name, stands alone despite his military prowess and services he had done to a civilized city reputed for its democracy and tolerance towards outsiders. Almost every individual in society inevitably experiences some form of alienation in their everyday lives. Alienation is one of the most widely-confronted phenomena not only in philosophy, psychology, sociology and politics, but also in literature of various genres.
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