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The Moor for the Malayali Masses: A Study of Othello in Kathaprasangam
(Lodz University Press, 2016-04-22)
Shakespeare, undoubtedly, has been one of the most important Western influences on Malayalam literature. His works have inspired themes of classical art forms like kathakali and popular art forms like kathaprasangam. A ...
Performing Protest in Cross-Cultural Spaces: Paul Robeson and Othello
(Lodz University Press, 2017-10-07)
When the famous African-American actor and singer Paul Robeson played the lead in Shakespeare’s Othello in London in 1930, tickets were in high demand during the production’s first week. The critical response, however, was ...
“I saw Othello’s visage in his mind”, or “White Mask, Black Handkerchif”: Satoshi Miyagi’s Mugen-Noh Othello and Translation Theory
(Lodz University Press, 2016-12-30)
This paper tries to detect key elements in the translated performance of Shakespeare by focusing on Satoshi Miyagi’s “Mugen-Noh Othello” (literally meaning “Dreamy Illusion Noh play Othello”), first performed in Tokyo by ...
Noh Creation of Shakespeare
(Lodz University Press, 2016-12-30)
This article contains select comments and reviews on Noh Hamlet and Noh Othello in English and Noh King Lear in Japanese. The scripts from these performances were arranged based on Shakespeare’s originals and directed on ...
Othello in the Balkans: Performing Race Rhetoric on the Albanian Stage
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)
This essay examines the racialized rhetoric in Fan Noli’s 1916 Othello translation and the racialized performance techniques employed in A.J. Ricko’s 1953 National Theatre of Albania production. Hoping to combat racial ...
Othello-dor: Racialized Odor In and On Othello
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)
For Shakespearean scholars, the subject of scent in his work has remained relatively lukewarm to discussion. Shakespeare’s use of smell is not only equal to that of his other senses, but smell’s uniquely historical record ...
Designing Goddesses: Shakespeare’s "Othello" and Marian Nowiński’s "Otello Desdemona"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)
The article discusses the intertextual relationship between the poster by Marian Nowiński, Otello Desdemona, and the content of Shakespeare’s play, while presenting the most important elements of the plot that are decisive ...
Interpreting Othello in the Arabian Gulf: Shakespeare in a Time of Blackface Controversies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)
This article opens with some brief observations on the phenomenon of Arab blackface—that is, of Arab actors “blacking up” to impersonate black Arab or African characters—from classic cinematic portrayals of the warrior-poet ...
Othello and the Ambivalences of Italian Blackface
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)
Blackface is a cultural practice that appears ubiquitously in Italian history cutting across the political spectrum; it also lends itself to suprising anti-racist actions. This essay examines the use of blackface from the ...
How Should You Perform and Watch Othello and Hairspray in a Country Where You Could Never Hire Black Actors? Shakespeare and Casting in Japan
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)
This paper discusses how Japanese theatres have handled race in a country where hiring black actors to perform Shakespeare’s plays is not an option. In English-speaking regions, such as the United States and the United ...