- Title
- Othello and the Narrative of Africa
- Creator
- Van Wyk Smith, Malvern
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 1990
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/457457
- Identifier
- vital:75639
- Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA1011582X_181
- Description
- Although Othello is where I want to start and where I hope to end, my proper aim is the more general one of Africa as seen through Elizabe-than eyes. I shall use a particular moment in the playas a crux upon which to develop a broad-ranging examination of what Elizabethans knew about Africa, or what they thought they knew about Africa, or, bet-ter still, how they understood what they thought they knew about Africa. The incident is Othello's appearance before the Venetian court where, accused by Desdemona's father that he had suborned her judgement with" charms... conjuration... and mighty magic"(1.3. 91-92), Othello proposes to unfold" a round unvarnished tale" to prove his veracity, his nobility and, most importantly, his common humanity with the Vene-tians. The speech contains such" round unvarnished" matters as the cannibals that each other eat, The anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
- Format
- 20 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Shakespeare in Southern Africa, Van Wyk Smith, M., 1990. Othello and the Narrative of Africa. Shakespeare in Southern Africa, 4(1), pp.11-30, Shakespeare in Southern Africa volume 4 number 1 11 30 1990 2071-7504
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Shakespeare in Southern Africa Statement (https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sisa/about)
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