Study Guide for Othello
Study
guide for teachers using the Oliver Parker film version of Othello (with
Laurence Fishburne)
Teacher
resource guide on Othello from the Guthrie Theater
Aquila
Theatre Company's Othello study guide for teachers
Penguin
Classics guide to Othello
PBS
ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theater guide to Othello
That's
Moor Like It! (New York Times Learning Network)
Discussion Questions
- Read McDonald's discussion Elizabethan perceptions of Africans in the
Bedford Companion (pp. 276-277) and Elizabeth I's "Edict Arranging for
the Expulsion from England of Negroes and Blackamoors" (p. 302).
How do you think an Elizabethan audience would have reacted to this play,
and the title character in particular? Is the play racist, or is it
anti-racist? Consider this question, posed by E. A. J. Honigmann in
the Arden3 edition of the play: "Should the Moor of Venice be
played as a black, or as an 'olive-coloured' Moor of north Africa?"
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Bibliography
[M. Neill]
[P. Parker]
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