Week 10

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Reading

Primary text: Othello

Secondary reading:
(1) Read the source-text for Shakespeare's play, and note the similarities and differences.
(2) Read the following article: Michael Neill, 'Unproper Beds: Race, Adultery, and the Hideous in Othello', Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Winter, 1989), pp. 383-412 (available on JSTOR).
(3) Browse through some of the other items from the reading list.

Other prep

In your study-group, I'd like you to watch this short piece on YouTube, as well as this one.
In the light of that, discuss within the group the role that racial difference plays within the text, and the function of 'difference' (racial, economic, social, gendered) in general. Identify a few moments in the play where this idea of difference becomes a key issue.