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Traces productions of Shakespeare’s Othello from seventeenth-century London to the Metropolitan Opera in twenty-first-century New York. Miles Grier shows how the painted stage Moor and the wife whom he theatrically stains became necessary types, reduced to objects of interpretation for a presumed white male audience.

Table of Contents
  • Introduction: The Residue of Inkface
  • 1. The Moor of Venice Reconstructed
  • "O Bloody Period": Othello's Constitution and Significance
  • "Letter and Affection," or Iago's Motive Reconsidered
  • Interlude: Desdemona's Guilt, or "The Farce of Dead Alive"
  • 2. "Be Thus When Thou Art Dead": Aphra Benh's Remediation of Othello
  • 3. "Pale as thy Smock": Abigail Adams in Desdemona's Whites
  • 4. The Cherokee Othello: Treating with 'The Base Indian'
  • 5. Inkface to Chalkbones: The End of White Character Mastery in Melville's "BC"
  • Epilogue: An Ultimate Reader

Inkface Othello and White Authority in the Era

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      Publisher: University of Virginia Press
      Publication Date: 31/12/2023
      ISBN13: 9780813950372, 978-0813950372
      ISBN10: 0813950376
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Traces productions of Shakespeare’s Othello from seventeenth-century London to the Metropolitan Opera in twenty-first-century New York. Miles Grier shows how the painted stage Moor and the wife whom he theatrically stains became necessary types, reduced to objects of interpretation for a presumed white male audience.

      Table of Contents
      • Introduction: The Residue of Inkface
      • 1. The Moor of Venice Reconstructed
      • "O Bloody Period": Othello's Constitution and Significance
      • "Letter and Affection," or Iago's Motive Reconsidered
      • Interlude: Desdemona's Guilt, or "The Farce of Dead Alive"
      • 2. "Be Thus When Thou Art Dead": Aphra Benh's Remediation of Othello
      • 3. "Pale as thy Smock": Abigail Adams in Desdemona's Whites
      • 4. The Cherokee Othello: Treating with 'The Base Indian'
      • 5. Inkface to Chalkbones: The End of White Character Mastery in Melville's "BC"
      • Epilogue: An Ultimate Reader

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