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Sometimes the order of the play influencing a composer is reversed, as in the appropriations of classical music by filmmakers retelling Othello's story: for example in the film O, in which excerpts from Verdi's Otello are used as a theme for Odin (the Othello character) while modern rap and hip-hop are more associated with the white college ...
Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson – an interpretation of The Merchant of Venice [4] Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler – a retelling of The Taming of the Shrew [5] Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood – a re-imagining of The Tempest [6] Macbeth by Jo Nesbø – a retelling of Macbeth [7] Dunbar by Edward St Aubyn – a retelling of King Lear [8]
Modern-day readers and theatre directors lean away from a North African Moorish interpretation [9] but Shakespeare's textual references are unclear. Iago twice uses the word "Barbary" or "Barbarian" to refer to Othello, seemingly referring to the Barbary coast inhabited by the "tawny" Moors. Roderigo calls Othello "the thicklips", which seems ...
Anthony Holden says that the book became "something of a publishing phenomenon" – a 750-page survey of Shakespeare which gained bestseller status and drew widespread attention to its author. "If his analyses are boldly colloquial," says Holden, "at times so sounding almost as if they were dictated, his insights are unfailingly original and ...
Bloom contributes three of the four interpretive chapters of the work. In the first, "On Christian and Jew: The Merchant of Venice", Bloom first outlines how an early 17th-century audience would have thought of Venice as a successful republic that, in its success, substitutes Biblical religion for a commercial spirit as the subject of men's passions; in this way, it was a precursor to modern ...
Hypochlorous acid is a natural molecule in the body but can also be used in skincare. Experts share how it’s used and why it’s the latest buzzy ingredient.
2001 Othello. British made-for-TV film. A modern-day adaptation in modern English, in which Othello is the first black Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police. Made for ITV by LWT. Scripted by Andrew Davies. Directed by Geoffrey Sax. Starring Eamonn Walker, Christopher Eccleston and Keeley Hawes. [citation needed] 2008 Othello, The Tragedy ...
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