Topic outline

  • General Presentation

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    You will find here posted  an expanded bibliography, and several articles (over several weeks from last year's course), which you are invited to read and try to make sense of.

    The texts to be studied in class are defined in the second document (with the plan for the lectures), for you to prepare presentations in class and/or hand in commentaries over the six weeks' course we have together (to be graded as part of the 30% continuous assessment, together with the essay you will be invited to write on the play).

  • Week 1

    Ist lecture: introduction to Shakespeare's times and contemporaries (Lecture notes augmented and displaced to Week 3).

    Incipit analysed in class: some plan to devise and development of the outlined themes.

    The list of texts to prepare over our six weeks of class will be given in the document "Plan for the lectures" once updated, and I invite you to read the two articles posted here on the question of race and the Africanity of Othello.

  • Week 2

    2nd lecture.

    Second text presented in class.

  • Week 3

    Lecture continued, with rather long quotes skipped from Britton's and Lupton's papers (extended in the lecture notes and of couse in the articles posted).

    Text 3 presented and further studied in class.

  • Week 4

    Continued lecture.

    Text 4 to present in class (and/or write a comment on).

  • Week 5

    Continued lecture.

    Text 5 to present in class (and/or write a comment on).

    This article by Janet Adelman posted for you to read, on notions British psychoanalyst Melanie Klein tackled in her 1957 Envy and Gratitude. A Study of Unconscious Sources , of "projection", introjection and "projective identification", which the author uses in her excellent analysis of Iago's nothingness, "envy" and "projection of his own blackness", an article I intended to sum up for you, and might still: "Iago's Alter Ego: Race as Projection in Othello", Shakespeare Quarterly, 48.2 (Summer 1997): 125-44.

  • Week 6

    Lecture postponed to December 11th for the essay correction. Not everybody attended!

    You will find my guidelines below and Marlène De Morais's very good paper (thanks Marlène for allowing me to post it!).

    Text 6 presented in class.

  • Further articles posted