Othello resources
Updated Term 3 2021
Information on literary analysis
Literary analysis guide Techniques for analysing a written text Literary analysis: Using elements of literature [archive*] *what does [archive] mean? Information on tragedy plays Encyclopaedia Britanica article on tragedy A brief history of tragedy Shakespeare's plays: Tragedy |
Othello resources online Folgerpedia page on Othello - Includes information on modern adaptations, themes and language. University of Massachusetts study guide on Othello British Library article: Critical approaches to Othello |
Elizabethan England
The Elizabethan era went from 1558-1603, and fell within the Tudor period of English history. Hold your noses: the smells, sounds and sights of Elizabethan England - History Extra Economy and society in early modern England - University of Wisconsin [archive] What was life like in Tudor London - Museum of London Pocket Histories Life in Tudor London - History Extra Timeline of sources from Elizabethan England - British Library British Library resources The British Library has produced a number of articles on specific aspects of life in Elizabethan England The social structure in Elizabethan England Shakespeare's London Witchcraft in Shakespeare's England Clothing in Elizabethan England Cities in Elizabethan England Food in Elizabethan England Exploration and trade in Elizabethan England Crime and punishment in Elizabethan England Amusements and pastimes in Elizabethan England |
16th Century Venice
Venice in Shakespeare's time - Globe Education [archive] Shakespeare and Italy - British Library Strangers in the city: The cosmopolitan nature of 16th-century Venice - British Library The history of Venice - Encyclopaedia Britannica - This links goes to the section that begins in the 1500s but you might need to read some of what is above it for it to make sense Women of 16th Century Venice - University of Southern California The Time of 16th Century Venice - University of Southern California 1516: Venice banishes its Jews to a Ghetto - Haaretz Mass plague graves found on Venice 'quarantine' island - National Geographic 'Vampire of Venice' unmasked: Plague victim and witch? - National Geographic |
Academic articles offering different readings of Othello
All of these articles were found using Google Scholar. Many articles on Google Scholar aren't freely available, however you can eliminate most of those articles from your search results by unchecking the 'patents' and 'citations' boxes, and by adding 'filetype:PDF OR filetype:HTML' at the end of your search.
If you wish to look for other academic articles, you can access the State Library's databases using your Sutherland Shire library card.
Baecker, DL 1999, ‘Tracing the history of a metaphor: All is not black and white in Othello’, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, vol. 30, iss. 1, pp. 113-129. Accessed 16 May 2017. <http://escholarship.org/uc/item/7229269p#page-17>
Ki, WC 2009, ‘Othello and the master-servant dialectic’, The Dalhouse Review, vol. 89, iss. 2, pp. 171-191. Accessed 16 May 2017. <http://dalspace.library.dal.ca/bitstream/handle/10222/61816/dalrev_vol89_iss2_pp171_191.pdf?sequence=1>
Ganguly, S 2012, ‘The turn of the shrew: Gendering the power of loquacity in Othello’, Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, appropriation and performance, vol. 9, iss. 24, pp. 1-13. Accessed 12 August 2021. <https://web.archive.org/web/20180728095608/https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/mstap.2012.9.issue-24/v10224-011-0011-8/v10224-011-0011-8.pdf>
Strandberg, V 1968, ‘The comedy of Othello’, The McNeese Review, vol. 19, pp. 3-15. Accessed 16 May 207. <https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/6048/Strandberg_1968_The%20Comedy%20of%20'Othello'.pdf?sequence=1>
Gay, P 1998-1999, ‘Emilia speaks her mind: Othello, IV.iii, 82-99’, Sydney Studies in English, vol. 24, pp. 40-47. Accessed 16 May 2017. <https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/SSE/article/viewFile/528/500>
Newey, K 1998-1999, ‘Recent readings of Othello’, Sydney Studies in English, vol. 24, pp. 48-62. Accessed 16 May 2017. <https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/SSE/article/view/529>
Marsh, DRC 1988, ‘Othello re-read’, Sydney Studies in English, vol. 14, pp. 1-12. Accessed 16 May 2017. <https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/SSE/article/view/442/416>
Shepherd, M 2016, ‘To a modern audience, Othello is simply another story of domestic abuse’, The Conversation, 7 September 2016. Accessed 16 May 2017. <https://theconversation.com/to-a-modern-audience-othello-is-simply-another-story-of-domestic-abuse-63646>
All of these articles were found using Google Scholar. Many articles on Google Scholar aren't freely available, however you can eliminate most of those articles from your search results by unchecking the 'patents' and 'citations' boxes, and by adding 'filetype:PDF OR filetype:HTML' at the end of your search.
If you wish to look for other academic articles, you can access the State Library's databases using your Sutherland Shire library card.
Baecker, DL 1999, ‘Tracing the history of a metaphor: All is not black and white in Othello’, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, vol. 30, iss. 1, pp. 113-129. Accessed 16 May 2017. <http://escholarship.org/uc/item/7229269p#page-17>
Ki, WC 2009, ‘Othello and the master-servant dialectic’, The Dalhouse Review, vol. 89, iss. 2, pp. 171-191. Accessed 16 May 2017. <http://dalspace.library.dal.ca/bitstream/handle/10222/61816/dalrev_vol89_iss2_pp171_191.pdf?sequence=1>
Ganguly, S 2012, ‘The turn of the shrew: Gendering the power of loquacity in Othello’, Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, appropriation and performance, vol. 9, iss. 24, pp. 1-13. Accessed 12 August 2021. <https://web.archive.org/web/20180728095608/https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/mstap.2012.9.issue-24/v10224-011-0011-8/v10224-011-0011-8.pdf>
Strandberg, V 1968, ‘The comedy of Othello’, The McNeese Review, vol. 19, pp. 3-15. Accessed 16 May 207. <https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/6048/Strandberg_1968_The%20Comedy%20of%20'Othello'.pdf?sequence=1>
Gay, P 1998-1999, ‘Emilia speaks her mind: Othello, IV.iii, 82-99’, Sydney Studies in English, vol. 24, pp. 40-47. Accessed 16 May 2017. <https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/SSE/article/viewFile/528/500>
Newey, K 1998-1999, ‘Recent readings of Othello’, Sydney Studies in English, vol. 24, pp. 48-62. Accessed 16 May 2017. <https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/SSE/article/view/529>
Marsh, DRC 1988, ‘Othello re-read’, Sydney Studies in English, vol. 14, pp. 1-12. Accessed 16 May 2017. <https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/SSE/article/view/442/416>
Shepherd, M 2016, ‘To a modern audience, Othello is simply another story of domestic abuse’, The Conversation, 7 September 2016. Accessed 16 May 2017. <https://theconversation.com/to-a-modern-audience-othello-is-simply-another-story-of-domestic-abuse-63646>
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