Table of Contents

List of Plates
Series Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part One: 'Othello' before Robeson

1. Othello's play
2. Desdemona's play
3. Iago's play
4. Interval: Alternative 'Othello's in the modern age

Part Two: Robeson and after

5. Othello becomes contemporary: Ira Aldridge and Paul Robeson
6. The Robeson legacy I: White Othellos on film, stage and television
7. The Robeson legacy II: Casting 'Othello', 1960-1997
8. 'Othello' and the end of the century: Sex and soldiers
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Lois Potter is Ned B. Allen Professor of English at the University of Delaware