OTHELLO - Pictures and Productions
Folger Shakespeare Library Gallery's - Depictions of Othello
An extensive collection of artists' depictions of scenes and characters from the world of Shakespeare, playbills, and photographs.
An extensive collection of artists' depictions of scenes and characters from the world of Shakespeare, playbills, and photographs.
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature: "Othello on Stage and Screen" by Sylvan Barnett provides information on British productions through most of the 20th-century.
"Othello" performed by the Heritage Theatre Group at the Globe Theatre - London (2007).
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Performed for the first time at the Globe Theatre, Othello is one of Shakespeare’s most exciting, atmospheric, and heartbreaking plays. This is a tale of uncontrollable jealousy, deception, and murder driven by one of theatre’s greatest villains.
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Performed for the first time at the Globe Theatre, Othello is one of Shakespeare’s most exciting, atmospheric, and heartbreaking plays. This is a tale of uncontrollable jealousy, deception, and murder driven by one of theatre’s greatest villains.
---Description from Films on Demand
black Shakespearean actors
This podcast episode on Shakespeare and the African American experience revisits the era when Jim Crow segregation was at its height, from a few years after the end of the Civil War to the 1940s and 1950s, including landmark performances like Orson Welles's Depression-era all-black "Macbeth" and Paul Robeson's "Othello".
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Not Wanted on The Stage --- a review (Breon, 1985) of the book Shakespeare in Sable: A History of Black Shakespearean Actors (Hill, 1984).
IRA ALDRIDGE
(Click on the name above for a portrait and brief biography.) Black History Month - Ira Aldridge (1807-1867) "Othello's Daughter: The Rich Legacy of Ira Aldridge, the Pioneering Black Shakespearian" --- an article published in The New Yorker Magazine, July 29, 2013. James Clarke Hook. Othello's description of Desdemona. Oil on canvas, ca. 1852. Folger Shakespeare Library |
PAUL ROBESON
(Click on the name above for a portrait and brief biography.) IMDb - Paul Robeson Speak of Me As I Am: The Story of Paul Robeson (If login is required, use zionbenton for the user name and password.) In this program, interviews with academic experts plus contemporaries bring to life a complex man whose political views overshadowed his achievements in the eyes of many Americans. The program presents Paul Robeson—star athlete, world-renowned singer and actor, enemy of segregation, and Communist sympathizer—through the eyes of those who knew him. (59 minutes) ---Description adapted from Films on Demand Performing Protest in Cross-Cultural Spaces: Paul Robeson and Othello by Robert Sawyer
This paper explores the differences in acceptance of Paul Robeson by critics between his performances in 1930 and again 13 years later. ---Adapted from Sciendo.com's abstract. |
Venice in the 16th Century
"An Introduction to Venice" -- Shakespeare and His World from The University of Warwick
An informative video of the the political, economic, and religious condition of Venice that influenced Shakespeare's writing of Othello and The Merchant of Venice.
An informative video of the the political, economic, and religious condition of Venice that influenced Shakespeare's writing of Othello and The Merchant of Venice.
"Venetian Culture and the Politics of Othello"
William Shakespeare's "Othello" is an example of Shakespeare's interest in republicanism in Venice. His favorable representation of Venice shows his willingness to explore the strengths of republican culture.
---Abstract from ProQuest
William Shakespeare's "Othello" is an example of Shakespeare's interest in republicanism in Venice. His favorable representation of Venice shows his willingness to explore the strengths of republican culture.
---Abstract from ProQuest
"Venice in the 16th Century"
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This video segment (#7) discusses the city's economic strength, political stability, and independence from Rome. A complex governance system protected against power abuse and artists enjoyed freedom from religious censorship. ---Description from Films on Demand
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This video segment (#7) discusses the city's economic strength, political stability, and independence from Rome. A complex governance system protected against power abuse and artists enjoyed freedom from religious censorship. ---Description from Films on Demand
"Strangers in the city: the cosmopolitan nature of 16th-century Venice - The British Library"
Venetians themselves recorded the confluence of ‘strangers’ in their city. The historian and man of letters Francesco Sansovino writes about the ‘Florentine, Genovese, Milanese, Spanish, Turkish, and other merchants from different nations of the world’, who frequented the heart of Venice, St Mark’s Square.
---Description from British Library (www.bk.uk.)
Venetians themselves recorded the confluence of ‘strangers’ in their city. The historian and man of letters Francesco Sansovino writes about the ‘Florentine, Genovese, Milanese, Spanish, Turkish, and other merchants from different nations of the world’, who frequented the heart of Venice, St Mark’s Square.
---Description from British Library (www.bk.uk.)
TURKS and Moors
"The Religious Situation in Europe about 1560"
Map depicting the religious sects by geographic location.
Map depicting the religious sects by geographic location.
"Don't Talk to Strangers" is a chapter from Shakespeare Alive! by Jospeh Papp and Elizabeth Kirkland addressing the "Elizabethan attitude toward foreigners in general and non-Christians--such as Turks--in particular" (O'Brien, 1995).
"Race" and the Construction of English National Identity: Spaniards and North Africans in English Seventeenth-Century Drama by Jesús López-Peláez Casellas.
In 1601 Queen Elizabeth appointed the merchant Casper Van Zeuden to transport all "Negars and blackamoors" out of England. Previously, on the so-called "Evil May Day" in 1517, the common people of London had attacked foreigners and destroyed their properties. Between 1517 and 1595 at least six riots and demonstrations of some importance had taken place, especially in London, to protest the presence of foreigners, most of whom were Germans, French, Dutch, and Flemish working as highly skilled artisans in a technologically backward England. The Parliament reacted in order to appease the people, and in 1575 Flemish refugees were expelled from England. In the following years several bills reducing the rights of foreigners were passed.1 Meanwhile, Spaniards were consistently depicted in English drama and pamphlets throughout the sixteenth and especially seventeenth centuries as a corrupt nation of devilish assassins, cruel parricides, and deceitful traitors and tyrants.
---Abstract from ProQuest
In 1601 Queen Elizabeth appointed the merchant Casper Van Zeuden to transport all "Negars and blackamoors" out of England. Previously, on the so-called "Evil May Day" in 1517, the common people of London had attacked foreigners and destroyed their properties. Between 1517 and 1595 at least six riots and demonstrations of some importance had taken place, especially in London, to protest the presence of foreigners, most of whom were Germans, French, Dutch, and Flemish working as highly skilled artisans in a technologically backward England. The Parliament reacted in order to appease the people, and in 1575 Flemish refugees were expelled from England. In the following years several bills reducing the rights of foreigners were passed.1 Meanwhile, Spaniards were consistently depicted in English drama and pamphlets throughout the sixteenth and especially seventeenth centuries as a corrupt nation of devilish assassins, cruel parricides, and deceitful traitors and tyrants.
---Abstract from ProQuest