Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America

Othello famously supplicates, ‘Speak of me as I am’, pleading for the Venetians to ‘nothing extenuate’, leave out, or make thin (5.2.352). Othello’s anxiety about narrative accuracy exposes his fear over his story’s potential misrepresentation. As the first monograph to examine Othello’s history of contemporary reanimations, Reanimating Shakespeare’s Othello in Post—Racial America takes up this question of retelling Othello’s story, turning to the play as re—crafted in a time and place imag...