Race, Linens, and Essences [Almost] Not Seen: Othello at the Shakespeare Institute.
| Publisher | Shakespeare Bulletin |
| Publication | Shakespeare Bulletin |
| Subject | Arts, visual and performing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0748-2558 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Published | 2008-03-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Kevin Crawford |
| Reviewee | n/a | Joe Curdy |
| Reviewee | n/a | Katharine Liu |
| Reviewee | n/a | Conny Loder |
| Reviewee | n/a | Barbara Santana |
| Reviewee | n/a | William Shakespeare |
| Reviewee | n/a | Shakespeare Institute Players |
| Reviewee | n/a | Kelly Steele |
| Reviewee | n/a | Sara Thompson |
| Reviewee | n/a | Brian Willis |
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Race, Linens, and Essences [Almost] Not Seen: Othello at the Shakespeare Institute, December 2006
Ranting about Othello in 1693, Thomas Rymer rather nastily catalogued what he took to be the three major morals of Shakespeare's Venetian "fable," the second being that the tragedy "be a warning to all good wives that they look well to their linens." It's easy to joke about Rymer's tone with students now--his blatant racism notwithstanding; but throughout the Shakespeare Institute Players' December 2006 production of the play in Mason Croft, Stratford-upon-Avon, I was certainly...
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