Shakespeare Research Guide: Othello

"Many readers have refuted the racial essentialism of the play but fail to account for the importance of violence in these constructions of difference and the consequent understanding of self in the play."

"Othello - and particularly in relation to Desdemona - becomes Iago's primary target in part because Othello has the presence, the fullness of being, that Iago lacks."

"Iago equivocates with both dissimulations and ambiguities: in language that is perceptibly incomplete, he undoes Othello with the suggestion that what appears to be true is actually false."

The article presents the comments on Othello, play by William Shakespeare. It offers information on Thomas Rymer, writer who is the critique of the play, "A Short View of Tragedy," by Shakespeare. It mentions that the evaluation in Othello is the domain of mathematics. It focuses on Othello's language of valuing, with the strands of criticism of play.

"What interests Iago, what interests Shakespeare, are the ways in which the ranks that place soldiers in legible relation to one another may be mapped on to the structures of personal identity, of social and sexual governance."

It outlines the importance of the written text as compared to the visual performance and highlights the event of the death of the heroine, Desdemona. It discusses the use of props and the symbolism they can imbibe, and also analyzes the speech made by the main character, Othello, at the end of the play. It also explores the play's status in the genre of tragedy.

An agent's moral beliefs are connected to his or her moral personality in a way that beliefs about matters of fact are not, but doesn't mean that a moral mistake never excuses the agent from subjective guilt, but it does mean that we cannot assume that this is always the case. This paper attempts to develop these suggestions through reflection on Othello, whose eponymous hero acts out of a combination of factual and moral errors which are intertwined with his character in revealing ways.

A literary criticism of the book "Othello," by William Shakespeare is presented. It explores on the skin color of the character Othello which is black relative to his image as a hero. It explains the meaning of the character, Othello, on Shakespeare's view and his first audiences. An overview of the story is also presented.

"If Othello's name sums him up better than those of other men, it is perhaps because his way with words is so singular. He is his name, but he is also by extension his speech, and his speech has caught everyone's ear."