Othello/Equus Flashcards
(22 cards)
Great Tragic Period timeline
Julius Caesar 1599 Hamlet 1600 Othello 1604 King Lear 1605 Macbeth 1606
Julius Caesar quote
Betrayal and reputation
“Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed?”
Ottoman-Venetian wars
1570-73
Early 17th century attitudes towards non-Europeans
Shaped by government’s diplomatic policies and exotic stories
Moor
(Mauritiana/Maura greek)
North West Africans/non-whites/muslims
Influence of Othello
-Hecacommithi 100 short stories 1565
Giovani Battista Geraldi
-King of Spain story, Philip II (jealous nature)
Africans were singled out for unusual dress often
Referred to as DEVILS or VILLAINS
Mythology surrounding Moors
Stereotyped as sexually overactive, prone to jealousy and WICKED
Blackness/Whiteness
Biblical
Black - moral corruption
White - purity
Land Carrack
Faithful prize
Spanish / Portuges treasure ship
1604 Spanish treasure ships were declared “lawful prize by Queen Elizabeth”
Shakespeare quote:
Judge the man, not his stereotypes, inherited assumptions
Queen Elizabeth 1601
Granted Moors full diplomatic recognition for help conquering Spain
Then deported them for concerns about overpopulation and ‘irregular behaviour’
First Othello -
Richard Barbidge
Last White Othellos
Anthony Hopkins
Michael Gambon
(1980s)
RSC Black Iago 2016
Lucian Msamati
Jehova - The Lord thy God is a jealous God
Authoritarian vengeful ruler old testament
Apple Tragedy
Ted Hughes
(Individualism, Religion)
1970
“The serpent rested”
“Eve drank, and opened her legs”
At the Back of the North Wind
Thom Gunn
(Religion, Sexuality, Corporial)
1957
“Horses, leather, fresh sweat, sweet mortality”
“The boy climbed nightly up the rungs behind the stalls”
Suez Crisis
B lost control of Suez canal
1956
Decline of British power/ no longer world power
“Without a bean”
Economic Recession( worst since Great Depression)
1973
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1964
Government Equal Pay act
1975
supported by the Sex Discrimination act
