Acknowledgements
General Editors' Preface
Introduction; L.Cowen Orlin
'Let it be Hid': The Pornographic Aesthetic of Shakespeare's Othello; L.E.Boose
Cultural Materialism, Othello, and the Politics of Plausibility; A.Sinfield
Charivari and the Comedy of Abjection in Othello; M.D.Bristol
Impertinent Trifling: Desdemona's Handkerchief; H.Berger,Jr
Brothers of the State: Othello, Bureaucracy, and Epistemological Crisis; E.Hanson
Othello on Trial; E.C.Bartels
Othello's Identity, Postcolonial Theory, and Contemporary African Rewritings of Othello; J.Singh
Raceing Othello: Re-Engendering White-Out; B.Hodgdon
Black and White, and Dread All Over: the Shakespeare Theatre's 'Photonegative' Othello and the Body of Desdemona; D.Albanese
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index.

With its focus on gender, power, race, sexuality, and violence, Othello is an important site for new critical approaches to the study of Shakespeare's works. Both criticism and culture are represented in this collection of recent essays which provides readers with examples of feminist, new-historicist, cultural materialist, deconstructive, and post-colonial perspectives on Othello. With discussions of recent stage and screen productions, and analysis of the use of the play in such contemporary events as the O.J. Simpson murder trial, this compelling critical volume presents a wide variety of ways of understanding the continuing significance of Shakespeare's play both in his own time and in ours.

DENISE ALBANESE Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at George Mason University EMILY C. BARTELS Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University HARRY BERGER JR Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History at Cowell College at the University of California, Santa Cruz LYNDA E. BOOSE Professor of English at Dartmouth College MICHAEL D. BRISTOL Greenshields Professor of English at McGill University ELIZABETH HANSON Associate Professor in the Department of English at Queen's University in Canada BARBARA HODGDON Adjunct Professor of Drama at the University of Michigan ALAN SINFIELD Professor of English at the University of Sussex JYOTSNA G. SINGH Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University