Reading Othello as Catholic Tragedy

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Reading Othello as Catholic Tragedy is written by Greg Maillet and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1527525732 (ISBN 10) and 9781527525733 (ISBN 13).

This book expands upon recent historical analysis of Shakespeare’s Othello, which has foregrounded issues of race, colonialism, and feminism, in order to show how the discourse of religion might affect our understanding of this play. It specifically looks at how the discourse of Catholicism, itself a highly contested topic in Shakespeare’s world, affects our understanding of Desdemona, whom the play so directly compares to perhaps the most divisive and controversial figure of the entire ‘Reformation’ period, Mary the Mother of God. Explaining how this comparison is developed and clarified by Shakespeare, this book explores the difference our interpretation of Desdemona’s ‘Marian’ dimension might make to critical understanding of the tragedy of Othello.