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Othello/Equus Flashcards

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Great Tragic Period timeline

A 
Julius Caesar 1599
Hamlet 1600
Othello 1604
King Lear 1605
Macbeth 1606
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Julius Caesar quote

Betrayal and reputation

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“Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed?”

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Ottoman-Venetian wars

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1570-73

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Early 17th century attitudes towards non-Europeans

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Shaped by government’s diplomatic policies and exotic stories

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Moor

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(Mauritiana/Maura greek)

North West Africans/non-whites/muslims

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Influence of Othello

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-Hecacommithi 100 short stories 1565
Giovani Battista Geraldi

-King of Spain story, Philip II (jealous nature)

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Africans were singled out for unusual dress often

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Referred to as DEVILS or VILLAINS

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Mythology surrounding Moors

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Stereotyped as sexually overactive, prone to jealousy and WICKED

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Blackness/Whiteness

Biblical

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Black - moral corruption

White - purity

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Land Carrack

Faithful prize

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Spanish / Portuges treasure ship

1604 Spanish treasure ships were declared “lawful prize by Queen Elizabeth”

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Shakespeare quote:

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Judge the man, not his stereotypes, inherited assumptions

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Queen Elizabeth 1601

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Granted Moors full diplomatic recognition for help conquering Spain

Then deported them for concerns about overpopulation and ‘irregular behaviour’

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First Othello -

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Richard Barbidge

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Last White Othellos

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Anthony Hopkins
Michael Gambon
(1980s)

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RSC Black Iago 2016

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Lucian Msamati

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Jehova - The Lord thy God is a jealous God

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Authoritarian vengeful ruler old testament

17
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Apple Tragedy
Ted Hughes

(Individualism, Religion)

A

1970
“The serpent rested”
“Eve drank, and opened her legs”

18
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At the Back of the North Wind
Thom Gunn
(Religion, Sexuality, Corporial)

A

1957
“Horses, leather, fresh sweat, sweet mortality”
“The boy climbed nightly up the rungs behind the stalls”

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Suez Crisis

B lost control of Suez canal

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1956
Decline of British power/ no longer world power
“Without a bean”

20
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Economic Recession( worst since Great Depression)

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1973

21
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The Royal Hunt of the Sun

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1964

22
Q

Government Equal Pay act

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1975

supported by the Sex Discrimination act

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