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Othello Through Critical Lens: Performance

Keywords for Performance Theory

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Examples of keywords/concepts:

Performance, Theatre, Body (Communication of), Physical Space (Setting), Time, Spectatorship, Casting, Costumes, Interpretation (of text), Distortion, Audience (role of), Music, Role or Identity, Power Dynamics

Philosophers and Theorists:
Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler

   Writers: Susan Sontag, Richard Schechner

Databases

Example of an article:

Mohammad Wajih, J. A. "Soliciting Audience’s Ovation: The Antagonist’s Artifices and Acting Ingenuity in Shakespeare’s Othello." International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature, vol. 9, no. 2, 2020, pp. 43-52. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/soliciting-audience-s-ovation-antagonist/docview/2469566266/se-2, doi:https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.9n.2p.43.

Example of an article:

Seltzer, Daniel. "Elizabethan Acting in Othello." Shakespearean Criticism, edited by Sandra L. Williamson and James E. Person, Jr., vol. 11, Gale, 1990. Gale Literature Criticism, link-gale-com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/apps/doc/HFGMEC748474411/LCO?u=nypl&sid=bookmark-LCO&xid=8ecd7db2. Originally published in Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 2, Spring 1959, pp. 201-210.

Example of an article:

Tsomondo, Thorell Porter. "Stage-managing 'otherness': the function of narrative in 'Othello.'." Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature, vol. 32, no. 2, June 1999, pp. 1+. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A55307028/GPS?u=nysl_me_nyc72_bh&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=948aa475. 

Example of an article:

Bernard, John D. "Theatricality and Textuality: The Example of Othello." New Literary History, vol. 26 no. 4, 1995, p. 931-949. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nlh.1995.0052.