The Masks of Othello: The Search for the Identity of Othello, Iago, and Desdemona by Three Centuries of Actors and CriticsIn what Norman Sanders has termed [a] now classic study, noted Shakespearean Marvin Rosenberg sets out to discover how the complex, troubled characters of the play have been interpreted by actors and critics from Shakespeare's time to the present. |
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THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 29 |
The EighteenthCentury Actors | 34 |
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY | 55 |
Kean | 61 |
Macready Fechter Irving | 70 |
Booth | 80 |
The Modern Othello | 145 |
The Modern Iago | 155 |
OTHELLO AND THE CRITICS | 161 |
In Defense of Iago | 166 |
In Defense of Othello | 185 |
In Defense of Desdemona | 206 |
In Defense of the Play I | 218 |
In Defense of the Play II | 230 |
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| Title | The Masks of Othello: The Search for the Identity of Othello, Iago, and Desdemona by Three Centuries of Actors and Critics |
| Author | Marvin Rosenberg |
| Edition | reprint, revised |
| Publisher | University of Delaware Press, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0874134811, 9780874134810 |
| Length | 313 pages |
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