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artschoolglasses · 1 year

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Othello, The Moor of Venice, James Northcote, 1826

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mailmiocuoredipietratremaancora · 8 months

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Somebody ripped only one page from Othello and I noticed once I was already on the bus so now I’ve to buy another copy in order to finish it

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transsexualcoriolanus · 1 year

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if people insist on blorboifying iago then idk why they would ship him with cassio or fucking othello when roderigo is right there

#othello #othello the moor of venice #iago #shakespeare #willy shakes

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atariforce · 1 year

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Othello, the Moor of Venice by Douglas Blanchard

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odinsblog · 1 month

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“Yeah, I mean, in 2018 was the first Shakespeare and race festival that I curated at the Globe. And at that time, there was less vitriol, but it was more like, why are we talking about Shakespeare and race? Shakespeare's got nothing to do with race.

So that led me to thinking about writing this book. But it was in 2020, when I launched the anti-racist Shakespeare webinars, that there was a horrible backlash, very racist backlash. And my own ethnic origins were brought into the conversation.

Oh, she's a woman of color. That's why she's talking about race. And actually, I had been at the Globe for 17 years by that point, you know?

And so that backlash is about ownership. It's about people feeling that something is being taken away from them.

And after the Black Lives movement, Black Lives Matter movement went global, and organizations like museums and galleries and theaters started to take it seriously, that's when you started to see a really racist backlash against any kind of progressive movement, whether it's in a theater or a museum. And I certainly had to face that in 2020.

I was a little bit worried about it, probably more so in the UK, because I think in the UK there's a special sense of ownership of Shakespeare in the way that there isn't in the US. So I'm American, but I'm also a Pakistani. And so I think it was really, it's a double whammy for the British.

Whereas in America, I feel like I was less worried because Americans don't mind other Americans talking about Shakespeare. So I was in the UK, concerned about that. But I think it obviously didn't stop me because what I'm trying to do is keep Shakespeare around.

And I'm explicitly not advocating canceling Shakespeare. And I think that's what they all thought I was doing when I was running those webinars.

So Shakespeare sets Othello in 16th century Venice, which was a very multicultural society because Venice was a sort of trading giant in this time period. So it was really financially lucrative for them to have people from all backgrounds working and living in Venice. And so it's about a Black African, known as a Moor in that time period, who was the captain of the Venetian army.

And it starts with another member of the army sort of screaming and shouting outside the door or window of a fellow's now father-in-law saying that, basically shouting a lot of racist epithets about how his daughter, his white daughter, has married a Black man. And she's done so without her father's consent. So it starts with this idea of there's been some sort of violation.

A Black man has married a white woman, and this is a problem.

So it ends up at the court of the Duke who is dealing with other issues because the Turks are now circling around their outpost in Cyprus, and they need Othello to do some work for them and to fight off the Turks. So the Duke says, oh, look, it's okay. It's fine. You know, Othello is a great guy. We've all worked with him. We know him really well.

And that's when the line comes out: He is far more fair than Black.

And what he's saying there is that essentially, look, he doesn't act Black. He acts white. He acts like us. So let's just be okay with this.

And so what you have there is a situation in which somebody who has kind of violated a kind of racial code in Venetian society is given a pass because he's very useful to that society. What happens in the rest of the play is that lago works on him and tries to convince him that his wife is having an affair with his lieutenant.

And unfortunately, Othello believes him, and they plot to murder Desdemona, and they do. He does. And it's a heartbreaking, heart-wrenching play.

And what's difficult about it is that it seems to fulfill stereotypes about Black men and Black masculinity. So it's always been a bit of a problem to stage. So yeah, it's a fantastic play, though.

It's a real sort of exploration of interracial relationships in a white-dominant society.

Yeah, I think it's harder in classrooms. And that's something that I actually been thinking about how to address a colleague of mine, and I've been discussing it. Because a lot of teachers, especially white teachers, aren't necessarily equipped to have a conversation about race that isn't going to make all the students in the room feel objectified or uncomfortable.

And so what I'm trying to, what I also get at the book is about discomfort, being able to lean into the discomfort of having conversations. And Shakespeare, for him, he was an advocate of discomfort. You were not comfortable when you went to see a Shakespearean tragedy.

He didn't want you to be.

And so we should try and be comfortable in the classroom. And there are productions who have tried very hard to lean into the racial tension and angst in the play.

But often it can be unsuccessful, particularly if it's a white director that sees too much optimism in the play. And says, oh, this play really, it's not about race. It's about redemption of characters who've been singled out for some reason.

I'm like, well, the reason is race.

My goal was always to show how it rears its head, even in the moments that are the most unexpected or that seems innocuous.

But what is interesting is that in a lot of his comedies, he's using anti-Black racism as a source of humor. And, you know, that would have made people laugh, some of the comments that you hear in some of his most delightful comedies. And because the racism isn't the undercurrent of the play, that it's easy to miss it.

So you'll just get all of a sudden a comment like Much Ado About Nothing, where the character Benedict is talking with his friend Claudio about a woman that Claudio has a crush on. And he says, oh, she's too brown for a fair praise. And that would have made people laugh.

What he's saying is that she's not attractive enough to praise her, and fair in that time was a very elite form of whiteness. It meant beautiful and virtuous and white with a luster or a shine, and that shine is the virtue of a woman. And no woman of color could ever achieve that, because she's not white enough.

So he's saying that this woman is too brown, even if she's not brown, but he's using brown as a way of denigrating people of color.

But I think Shakespeare is still valuable for us because of the contemporary nature of some of the issues that he raises in his plays.

I mean, there's a great speech in Midsummer Night's Dream where he talks about the destruction of the planet because of the way people are behaving towards each other. And the powerful resonance of that today just is unmissable. So Shakespeare is able to articulate or help you to think about questions that are so urgent in your own moment.

I think other writers need to be brought into dialogue with Shakespeare. If you teach Othello, teach Toni Morrison's Desdemona, right?

It's incredibly lucrative intellectually and emotionally to keep Shakespeare in the curriculum.”

—Farah Karim Cooper: Director of Education at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and author of The Great White Bard, How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

#shakespeare #farah karim cooper #othello #racism #ingrained racism #casual racism #writing #much ado about nothing #colorism #the merchant of venice #anti blackness #desdemona #blacklivesmatter #theatre

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vixen-academia · 9 months

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princesssarisa · 7 months

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The Top 40 Most Popular Operas, Part 3 (#21 through #30)

A quick guide for newcomers to the genre, with links to online video recordings of complete performances, with English subtitles whenever possible.

Verdi's Il Trovatore

The second of Verdi's three great "middle period" tragedies (the other two being Rigoletto and La Traviata): a grand melodrama filled with famous melodies.

Studio film, 1957 (Mario del Monaco, Leyla Gencer, Ettore Bastianini, Fedora Barbieri; conducted by Fernando Previtali) (no subtitles; read the libretto in English translation here)

Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor

The most famous tragic opera in the bel canto style, based on Sir Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor, and featuring opera's most famous "mad scene."

Studio film, 1971 (Anna Moffo, Lajos Kozma, Giulio Fioravanti, Paolo Washington; conducted by Carlo Felice Cillario)

Leoncavallo's Pagliacci

The most famous example of verismo opera: brutal Italian realism from the turn of the 20th century. Jealousy, adultery, and violence among a troupe of traveling clowns.

Feature film, 1983 (Plácido Domingo, Teresa Stratas, Juan Pons, Alberto Rinaldi; conducted by Georges Prêtre)

Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI

Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio)

Mozart's comic Singspiel (German opera with spoken dialogue) set amid a Turkish harem. What it lacks in political correctness it makes up for in outstanding music.

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1988 (Deon van der Walt, Inga Nielsen, Lillian Watson, Lars Magnusson, Kurt Moll, Oliver Tobias; conducted by Georg Solti) (click CC for subtitles)

Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera

A Verdi tragedy of forbidden love and political intrigue, inspired by the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden.

Leipzig Opera House, 2006 (Massimiliano Pisapia, Chiara Taigi, Franco Vassallo, Annamaria Chiuri, Eun Yee You; conducted by Riccardo Chailly) (click CC for subtitles)

Part I, Part II

Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)

A half-comic, half-tragic fantasy opera based on the writings of E.T.A. Hoffmann, in which the author becomes the protagonist of his own stories of ill-fated love.

Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2018 (Juan Diego Flórez, Olga Peretyatko, Nicolas Courjal, Sophie Marilley; conducted by Jacques Lacombe) (click CC and choose English in "Auto-translate" under "Settings" for subtitles)

Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)

An early and particularly accessible work of Wagner, based on the legend of a phantom ship doomed to sail the seas until its captain finds a faithful bride.

Savolinna Opera, 1989 (Franz Grundheber, Hildegard Behrens, Ramiro Sirkiä, Matti Salminen; conducted by Leif Segerstam) (click CC for subtitles)

Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana

A one-act drama of adultery and scorned love among Sicilian peasants, second only to Pagliacci (with which it's often paired in a double bill) as the most famous verismo opera.

St. Petersburg Opera, 2012 (Fyodor Ataskevich, Iréne Theorin, Nikolay Kopylov, Ekaterina Egorova, Nina Romanova; conducted by Mikhail Tatarnikov)

Verdi's Falstaff

Verdi's final opera, a "mighty burst of laughter" based on Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Studio film, 1979 (Gabriel Bacquier, Karan Armstrong, Richard Stilwell, Marta Szirmay, Jutta Renate Ihloff, Max René Cosotti; conducted by Georg Solti) (click CC for subtitles)

Verdi's Otello (Othello)

Verdi's second-to-last great Shakespearean opera, based on the tragedy of the Moor of Venice.

Teatro alla Scala, 2001 (Plácido Domingo, Leo Nucci, Barbara Frittoli; conducted by Riccardo Muti)

#opera #top 40 #21 through 30 #video #complete performances #english subtitles #il trovatore #lucia di lammermoor #pagliacci #die entfuhrung aus dem serail #the abduction from the seraglio #un ballo in maschera #les contes d'hoffmann #the tales of hoffmann #der fliegende holländer #the flying dutchman #cavalleria rusticana #falstaff #otello

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destinyc1020 · 2 months

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I love how Tom is doing Romeo and Juliet while his hub and Jake Gyllenhaal is doing Othello

Oooooo!!!

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal in "Othello"? 😲

Sign me up!! 👏🏾

I know that will be good!!

That's awesome that both Tom and Jake are doing Shakespeare plays 🥰👏🏾

#denzel washington #jake gyllenhaal #Othello

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adragonsfriend · 3 months

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can I just say, I am living for your rots liveblog rn. please tell us what this essay you're writing about it is for 🙏

Thank you thank you *exaggerated curtsey*

If you haven't read Othello then this is going to be incomprehensible but,

My paper is for a class about the play Othello. I have to pick a performance/re-staging of Othello and write about what it's saying about the formation of identity in the original play.

When I say I finessed my way into using ROTS for this i really mean i mentioned I had been thinking about arguing it was a re-staging of Othello to my professor and she was immediately super enthusiastic about the idea.

It's not a one to one comparison, but there are a lot of parallels--like soo many--especially with the way that both stories are framed as myths--and I can definitely wrangle an argument out of it.

Currently thinking something along the lines of "race plays into Othello's isolation from any peers and therefore Iago's manipulation of him, while Anakin's isolation and manipulation by Palpatine is largely an idea he creates artificially (racism is also artificial ofc but it's also already present in Venice/Cypress society for Iago to use)

…that's incomprehensible ik, i'll figure it out later

also thinking of the fact that ROTS is part of the much larger series, in which we get so much more context for Anakin's existence and choices than we do for any of Othello's choices in Othello, which is a pretty short play. even more so because Othello the play has been the most prominent portrayal of a black man in white european art for like 400 years and so has been under so many microscopes and perspectives and expectations that it's really difficult to have any definitive opinion on the play or the character. as oppose to Star Wars which is significantly less ambiguous and also there are plenty of angry white boys in western media so Anakin isn't under the same pressure as a character to represent every white boy ever

Also SW framed as a myth is pretty clearly a story with a moral of "greed is bad and you'll do bad things if you cant handle losing things", if you frame Othello that way the moral pretty quickly becomes "white girls should listen to their fathers and not marry black men because if they do bad things will happen," which is obviously awful. anyway.

Also featuring parallels like:

Anakin also falls partly into Roderigo's role of being kind of a dupe, not just Othello's role of manipulated murderer

Both Desdemona and Padme get strangled/suffocated and then die still insisting on their husbands' good character

Mace Windu is kind of Emilia, but better

Obi-Wan is Cassio, but better

Bail Organa is, like, Lodovico? but better

The council are kind of the governers of Venice for a minute? but not really. kinda, idk

ROTS and Othello both start out looking like comedies and then hold you on the edge of believing the tradgedy is actually going to happen with the sheer ridiculousness of some parts of their plots, but also you already know they're going to be tradgedies because ROTS is a prequel and Othello's actual title is The Tragedy of Othello, Moor of Venice.

#star wars #revenge of the sith #othello #shakespeare #anakin skywalker

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grendelsmilf · 14 days

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for some reason it just occurred to me yesterday that othello and shylock both live in the same city..... moor of venice...... merchant of venice.... i might be stupid

#in fairness I literally never think about merchant. like ever #but still...#o

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shakespearenews · 8 months

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The Masks of Othello: A Theatrical Essay traces the evolution of Shakespeare’s The Moor of Venice from a character portrayed by white actors assuming masks of blackness to a role that has become the exclusive property of the black actor. In this play, the play The Tragedy of Othello is itself the central character as we followed it through the ages in the performances of some of the greatest actors throughout time. From Burbage in the Elizabethan era, Betterton in the Aldridge and Edwin Booth in the 19th Century and Paul Robson and Laurence Olivier in the 20th Century. And then there are the critics through the ages who struggle mightily to make the play conform to the values and customs of their times. Who is Othello? Is his visage in the color of his skin or is it in our minds?

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #the masks of othello #Carlyle Brown #playwrights center #new play #shakespeare and adaptation #othello

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bandedbulbussnarfblat · 2 months

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y'all if the shows gives us any Bianca Solderini, I think she should be either Middle Eastern or black.

(and bc i knew the racists would try to shut it down, i did research and added links. but before we get into all that let me say some other stuff.)

I think Bianca was probably related to this guy. His name was Piero Soderini, he was from Florence, and the ambassador to France. Like, basically this guy had a decent career until he ruined it and got exiled so he went and hung out in Croatia. Anne Rice loved to mention real historical people in her fics, so the last name could have been a reference to him. I mean it was only one letter apart.

Now we know Bianca was being forced to kill by some family members. I can't remember much, but I think they may have been distant cousins. Maybe a part of the family that branched off and began spelling the name a different way.

Now, back in the day, Venice was hot shit. It was the cosmopolitan city and it was basically Europe's gateway to the rest of the world. I'm saying, you'd see a lot of different races here day to day.

But what you would see most of were Moors and Saracens. (That's what they would have called them, at least.)

Moors were what they called black people. Like Othello from Shakespeare.

Alright, bc I'm lazy, I'm just gonna copy and paste this section from the site I'm using:

"The term “Saracen” (Greek sarakenos, Latin saracenus), carried a slightly more specific connotation of “Eastern,” and sometimes “Muslim.” It was the word the Venetian Crusaders used when stirring people to launch medieval religious wars to wrest Jerusalem from the hand of the infidel, and to justify the plundering of Constantinople. At the same time, Venice welcomed merchants from the Near East, and they must have been a familiar sight in the city."

In modern day terms the 'Near East' is same as the Middle-East. So it is entirely possible that Bianca could have been Middle-Eastern, realistically. Or black, but I think her and Armand both being middle-eastern could give them a deeper bond, as they would understand each other's situations better. And also Armand had some amnesia in the book, and it would be a great way to introduce him back to his religion.

Oh, I'll add one more thing from the article "some Venetians of color took on the surname “Bianco,” which means “White.”" Bianca is a more feminine version of that, seeing it also means white.

#alright im gonna to bed now

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transsexualcoriolanus · 1 year

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i am normal about this parallel i promise

#where is the othello content in the shakespeare fandom #WHERE #i know the ‘shakespeare fandom’ on tumblr is just 12 gays and is 90% hamlet but…. cmon people #this has definitely been said before #but it is making me scream #othello #othello the moor of venice #shakespeare #willy shakes

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notcrazylimitededition · 1 year

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So I'm currently in a strange position where for the first time in a while I'm done with all the reading I was doing and now I need to pick the next thing so poll time

#literature #polls #bookblr #Shakespeare #othello #John milton #paradise lost #hitchiker's guide to the galaxy #douglas adams #three musketeers #alexandre dumas #jules verne #voyage of the nautilus #francis fukuyama #history

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tenderbittersweet · 5 months

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My 2023 New-to-Me Media Wrap-Up

Movies

History of the World, Part 1 (★★★)

A Man Called Otto (★★★★)

The Beguiled (★★★★)

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (★★★★★)

Everything Everywhere All at Once (★★★★)

Oppenheimer (★★★★★)

Barbie (★★★★★)

Bullet Train (★★★)

Other People (★★★)

A Haunting in Venice (★★★★)

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (★★★★)

Death on the Nile – 2022 (★★★)

Death on the Nile – 2004 (★★★)

The Woman in Black (★★★)

Worth (★★★★)

The Woman in White (★★★★)

Murder on the Orient Express (★★★★★)

Santa Claus is Coming to Town (★★★)

Happiest Season (★★★)

The Other Boleyn Girl (★★★)

Maggie Moore(s) (★★★★★)

T.V. Shows

Ghosts S4-S5 (★★★★★)

Suits S1-S8 (★★★)

The Great S2-S3 (★★★)

The Bear S2 (★★★★★)

Mildred Pierce – Mini-series (★★★)

Fisk S1 (★★★★★)

Call the Midwife S12 (★★★★)

Over the Garden Wall (★★★★★)

Wolf Hall (★★★★★)

Books

Nobody is Ever Missing by Catherin Lacey (★★)

Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman (★★★★)

Beowulf (★★★★)

Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala (★★)

This One Summer by Jillian & Mariko Tamaki (★★★)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (★★★★)

Zami by Audre Lorde (★★★)

Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (★★★)

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (★★★)

Othello by William Shakespeare (★★★★)

Dawn by Elie Wiesel (★★★)

Oroonoko by Aphra Behn (★★★)

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (★★★)

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (★★★★)

Clover by Dori Sanders (★★)

Passing by Nella Larson (★★★★)

Seize the Day by Saul Bellow (★★★)

Daisy Miller by Henry James (★★★★)

The Turn of the Screw x2 by Henry James (★★★★)

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde x2 by Robert Louis Stevenson (★★★★)

To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck (★★★)

The Yellow Wallpaper & Other Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (★★★★)

How to Stop Time by Matt Haig (★★)

The Living by Annie Dillard (★★★)

Heartstones by Ruth Rendell (★★★)

The Law & the Lady by Wilkie Collins (★★★)

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (★★★★)

Cane by Jean Toomer (★★★★)

Our Dark Academia by Adrienne Raphel (★★)

A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie (★★★)

Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown (★★★★★)

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammet (★★★★)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (★★★)

E is for Evidence by Sue Grafton (★)

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley (★★)

Podcasts

Rehash (★)

Normal Gossip (★★)

Noble Blood (★★★★★)

Lore (★★★)

Fuckbois of Literature (★★★)

Stuff You Missed in History Class (★★★★)

If Books Could Kill (★★★★)

Wilder by Glynnis MacNicol (★★★★★)

Documentaries

Anna Nicole: You Don’t Know Me (★★★)

Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie (★★★★)

Defending My Life (★★★★★)

Plays

The Last Living Gun (★★★)

#movies‚ film‚ and cinema #t.v. shows #books #podcasts #documentaries #plays #2023 #perspective #op

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eileenguy · 1 year

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I'm sorry just!! The Othello parallels between Goncharov and Andrey! a man vulnerable because he feels he fundamentally doesn't belong (Othello as the Moor in Venice/Goncharov as the Eastern European trying to find his footing in the world of the Italian mafia), his naive, trusting lover who doesn't see beyond their love for the man (Desdemona eloping with Othello/Andrey staying with Goncharov when everyone else leaves his life), the man killing his lover in a fit of rage after being poisoned against them by a scheming admiral (Othello murdering Desdemona after Iago convinces him she's cheating on him with Cassio/Goncharov poisoning Andrey's wine after Mario convinces him he's sleeping with his wife, Katya). Like!!

#goncharov #unreality #andrey/goncharov #katya/andrey

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