Othello: Character Studies

Othello is a major shakespearean text, studiedwidely and often adapted for film and TV and isespecially challenging for a multicultural society.Othello lends itself to criticism through discussion ofthe major characters although this study also focuseson recent criticism`s analysis of the characters as signifiers. The study of the key characters takesthe discussion of the text immediately into thecentral issues of otherness, gender, race andpower.