Shakespeare's Othello Book

Pt. 1	Materials
Pt. 2	Approaches
	Introduction	25
	Prologue : Othello in the work of James R. Andreas	31
	Othello and race	37
	Rememorializing Othello : teaching Othello and the cultural memory of racism	53
	"Your own for ever" : revealing masculine desire in Othello	62
	Improvisation and Othello : the play of race and gender	72
	Orders of fantasy in Othello	80
	Othello as an adventure play	90
	Teaching Othello as tragedy and comedy	100
	"'Tis but a man gone" : teaching Othello as an (anti)revenge play	108
	Teaching the texts of Othello	117
	Motivating Iago	125
	Unhoused in Othello	133
	Teaching teachers : Othello in a graduate seminar	141
	Teaching Richard Burbage's Othello	148
	Teaching Othello through performance choices	156
	"Ocular proof" : Teaching Othello in performance	162
	Interpreting the tragic loading of the bed in cinematic adaptations of Othello	169
	Teaching Othello with works by Elizabeth Cary and Aphra Behn	180
	Tales of a fateful handkerchief : Verdi, Vogel, Cinthio, and Shakespeare present Othello	187
	Paper, linen, sheets : Dinesen's "The blank page" and Desdemona's handkerchief	194
	Finding Othello's African roots through Djanet Sears's Harlem duet	202