The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 18.0837 Sunday, 16 December 2007
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Date: Thursday, 13 Dec 2007 18:06:21 -0500
Subject: 18.0830 Class in OTHELLO
Comment: Re: SHK 18.0830 Class in OTHELLO
Tom Bishop rightly notes that Michael Neill has written brilliantly
about *Othello*, first, in some early pages of a book that readers
wanting to understand our playwright ought to read all the way through,
*Putting History to the Question: Power, Politics, and Society in
English Renaissance Drama* (New York: Columbia U. P., 2000), later, in a
pamphlet that's not easy to find but worth finding if you can, *'Servile
ministers': Othello, King Lear, and the Sacralization of Service* (The
2003 Garnett Sedgwick Memorial Lecture, Vancouver: Ronsdale Press,
2003). I might note that I treat the play very extensively in my own
study of service as a theme in Shakespeare, in ways that sometimes
challenge the materialist limitations of Neill's approach.
David Evett
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