Othello
Texts and Contexts
First Edition
Publication Date: December 27, 2006
Paperback ISBN: 9780312398989
Pages: 448
This edition of Othello reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by six sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare. The text includes tracts on marriage, travel literature, military manuals,...
ABOUT THE SERIES
ABOUT THIS VOLUME
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Introduction
AN Othello PRE-TEXT: CINTHIO, FROM Gli Hecatommithi
PART ONE
William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice
(Edited by David Bevington)
William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice
(Edited by David Bevington)
PART TWO
Cultural Contexts
1. Race and Religion
Othello’s Sword and English Sexuality
Blackness and Moors
Peter Martyr, From The Decades of the New World or West India
George Best, From A True Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discouery
Queen Elizabeth I, Licensing Casper van Senden to Deport Negroes
John Leo Africanus, From A Geographical History of Africa
The Lady and the Blackamoor
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
Christianity
Nicholas Udall, From Respublica
Nicholas Udall, From Respublica
The White Devil
Geneva Bible, Verses on the White Devil
Martin Luther, From A Commentary upon the Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians
Geneva Bible, Verses on the White Devil
Martin Luther, From A Commentary upon the Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians
2. Cultural Geography
The Early Modern Mediterranean
The Myth of Venice
Dedicatory Poems, From The Commonwealth and Government of Venice
The Myth of Venice
Dedicatory Poems, From The Commonwealth and Government of Venice
Fynes Moryson, From An Itinerary
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
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
3. Marriage and the Household
Baldassare Castiglione, From The Book of the Courtier
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
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
4. Masculinity and Military Life
Robert Barret, From The Theory and Practice of Modern Wars
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
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
5. Passions
Thomas Wright, From The Passions of the Mind in General
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
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
Robert Burton, From Anatomy of Melancholy
Francis Bacon, From The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
Francis Bacon, From The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
6. Encounters with Othello
Critical Encounters
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
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
Derek Walcott, Goats and Monkeys
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
