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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 139. )INTRODUCTION Written in 1603 or 1604 according to most literary historians, The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice was not published until 1622. The title character is a convert to Christianity and a military leader...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 79. )INTRODUCTION Othello (ca. 1604) is generally considered to be one of Shakespeare's finest dramatic works. The play, a character-driven domestic tragedy of jealousy and deception, is set in Venice and Cyprus and recounts...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 108. )INTRODUCTION Othello (1604) is widely regarded as one of Shakespeare's great tragedies. The play recounts the tragic fate of Othello, a Moorish general and recent convert to Christianity, who is charged by his Venetian...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 11. )The stage history of Shakespeare's Othello is remarkably complete. Beginning in 1604, records document productions in virtually every decade up to the present, except during the period of the Protectorate in England...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 4. )DATE: Most scholars agree that Shakespeare wrote Othello in 1604, but some have postulated a composition date as early as 1603 or even 1602. The earliest recorded performance of the play was that by the KING'S MEN "in...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 149. )INTRODUCTION The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice was first published in 1622 but is generally thought to have been written in the period around 1603 and first performed in 1604. Although based on a 1565 story by...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 99. )INTRODUCTION Othello (1604) is generally regarded as a captivating domestic tragedy that concentrates on the psychological repercussions of racial hatred and sexual jealousy. The play recounts the tragic fate of Othello,...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 84. )INTRODUCTION Critical studies of the iconography-visual images and symbols-in Shakespeare's plays have led to a better understanding of his works. Late sixteenthand early seventeenth-century audiences had a shared...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 101. )INTRODUCTION The defining intellectual movement of early modern Europe, humanism was stimulated by the reawakening of interest in classical Latin and Greek literature near the end of the fourteenth century. The essence...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 35. )INTRODUCTION The themes of jealousy, pride, and revenge have consistently interested scholars throughout Othello's critical history. With the development of psychoanalysis and its application to literary characters,...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (Vol. 296. )INTRODUCTION The short novel Oroonoko is the best-known and most accomplished work by Aphra Behn (16407-1689), earning her a lasting place in the canon of English literature. It chronicles the struggles and ultimate...Found in Literature Criticism 1400-1800
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 122. )INTRODUCTION The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is dated by most scholars to 1603 or 1604-although it was not published until 1622-and was probably the next tragedy Shakespeare wrote after Hamlet. The story...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 131. )INTRODUCTION Othello is unique among Shakespeare's tragedies for its relentless dramatic intensity. From the mid-seventeenth century to the present day, its capacity to engage audiences has made it the most frequently...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 428. )INTRODUCTION The literary treatment of domestic violence has been exten¬ sive, emerging in texts from a variety of genres dating to antiquity. Accounts of domestic abuse can be found within the Old Testament and Homeric...Found in 20th Century Literature Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 123. )INTRODUCTION Shakespearean drama contains myriad references to external forces often believed to shape human destiny. Whether these forces are considered to be a manifestation of chance, accident, necessity, fortune,...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 68. )INTRODUCTION Often described as a tragedy of character, much of the critical commentary of Othello focuses on the main characters of the play-Othello, lago, and Desdemonaand their relationships to one another. Other...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 72. )INTRODUCTION Jealousy, famously described as "the green-eyed monster" in the tragedy Othello, has proven to be a theme of perennial interest among Shakespearean scholars. Although commentators acknowledge that jealousy...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 140. )INTRODUCTION For most literary historians, Shakespeare's reputation as the foremost dramatist in the English language is in part based on his association with the acting company known as the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 10. )DATE: Venus and Adonis was first published in 1593, having been entered in the STATIONERS’ REGISTER on 18 April of that year. In his dedication to the Earl of Southampton, Shakespeare describes the work as "the first...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From: Players MagazineShattuck provides a concise overview of prominent stage Othellos. He begins with Richard Burbage, who performed for James I in 1604, and includes Betterton, Quin, the Booths, Barry, Kemble, Kean, Aldridge, Macready,...Found in Shakespearean Criticism