The Masks of Othello: The Search for the Identity of Othello, Iago, and Desdemona by Three Centuries of Actors and Critics

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University of Delaware Press, 1992 - Drama - 313 pages
In what Norman Sanders has termed [a] now classic study, noted Shakespearean Marvin Rosenberg sets out to discover how the complex, troubled characters of the play have been interpreted by actors and critics from Shakespeare's time to the present.
 

Contents

The Actors Share
5
Othello in the Restoration
16
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
29
The EighteenthCentury Actors
34
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
55
Kean
61
Macready Fechter Irving
70
Booth
80
The Modern Othello
145
The Modern Iago
155
OTHELLO AND THE CRITICS
161
In Defense of Iago
166
In Defense of Othello
185
In Defense of Desdemona
206
In Defense of the Play I
218
In Defense of the Play II
230

Forrest
89
Salvini
102
The Victorian Iago
120
The Victorian Desdemona
135
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
141
A KIND WORD FOR BOWDLER
244
NOTES
257
INDEX
303
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