Context in Jacobean times
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- Context in Jacobean times
- Race
- London
- Common to have black musicians and servants
- 1596
- Queen Elizabeth tried to expel black people
- hardly any expelled as house owners refused to give them up
- Queen Elizabeth tried to expel black people
- The language of "blackness"
- Act 1
- Iago : "making the beast with two backs"
- Brabantio : Desdemon-a's love for Othello defies nature
- must be the result of witchcraft
- Act 2
- Roderigo "the devil"
- implies black men are inferior
- Roderigo "the devil"
- Act 3
- Iago says Desdemona will "recoil to her better judgement "
- D will realise what she has done is wrong
- Iago says Desdemona will "recoil to her better judgement "
- Act 1
- Act 5
- symbolism
- white
- virginity
- purity
- "blacker devil"
- black = dirty?
- white
- symbolism
- London
- Religious Divisions
- Arab Africans
- held in high esteem
- described as being noble
- Sub-Saharan Africans
- "theft and violence"
- "The negros likewise lead a beastly kind of life"
- Arab Africans
- Customs in the theatre
- Jacobean representations of other races
- violent
- blood thirsty
- lecturvious
- 20th century
- Not until the 20th century that it became the dominant idea that othello should be played by a black man
- Pre 20th century
- common for white performers to paint themselves dark for black roles
- mockery i.e. "Black Minstrel Shows"
- reinforces the white control over the discourse of race
- mockery i.e. "Black Minstrel Shows"
- common for white performers to paint themselves dark for black roles
- Jacobean representations of other races
- Race
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