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In this stimulating study, Edward Pechter describes the play's design and effects in a way that accounts for its extraordinary power to engage the interests of audiences and readers not just in our time but throughout history. Going back to the play's original production, he argues Othello is unique in that it divides the central space of its action equally between protagonist and antagonist. This design has made strenuous demands on theatrical productions; the stage history of the play may be plotted as a continuous refusal or inability to allow for Othello's and Iago's equivalent attractive power.
While Othello and its interpretive traditions are distinguishable from one another as a matter of analytical convenience, Pechter demonstrates how they are mutually dependent, reciprocally constitutive ways of talking about the same thing. As a result, the distinction between the current and historical versions tends to blur if not collapse. Since so many current versions of Shakespeare's tragedy depend fundamentally on claims of an enlightened critical detachment from tradition, the situation may be taken as a peculiarly intense instance of the power of Othello to defeat what we may think of as our better nature.
About: During the past twenty years or so, Othello has become the Shakespearean tragedy that speaks most powerfully to our contemporary concerns.
About: Â During the past twenty years or so, Othello has become the Shakespearean tragedy that speaks most powerfully to our contemporary concerns.
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