OTHELLO
TIPS AND TRICKS
1) LEARN TO SEARCH BY DATE RANGE TO LOCATE CONTEMPORARY SOURCES IN DATABASES BY USING THE CUSTOM DATE RANGE FILTER (Elizabethan Era is roughly 1558 - 1603; Renaissance Era is roughly 1450 - 1650)
2) CONSIDER YOUR SEARCH TERMS. EXAMPLES INCLUDE "Elisabeth literature"
"Elizabethan literature" or "women and social class and Elisabethan era" as examples
3) REMEMBER TO LOG INTO DATABASES ANY TIME YOU ARE WORKING OFF CAMPUS WITH A LIBRARY RESOURCE. See off campus access info below
OFF CAMPUS ACCESS
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Noodletools for citation (MLA)
SCHOLARLY SOURCES
SCHOLARLY MATERIAL EXAMPLES* *use limiters to tweak your search for critical date ranges of the time period
Hogan, Patrick C. “‘OTHELLO’, RACISM, AND DESPAIR.” CLA Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 1998, pp. 431–51. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44323165. Accessed 25 Mar. 2024.
Bartels, Emily C. “Making More of the Moor: Aaron, Othello, and Renaissance Refashionings of Race.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 4, 1990, pp. 433–54. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2870775. Accessed 27 Mar. 2024.
Orkin, Martin. “Othello and the ‘Plain Face’ Of Racism.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 2, 1987, pp. 166–88. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2870559. Accessed 25 Mar. 2024.
Neely, Carol Thomas. “‘Documents in Madness’: Reading Madness and Gender in Shakespeare’s Tragedies and Early Modern Culture.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 3, 1991, pp. 315–38. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2870846. Accessed 25 Mar. 2024.
Suzuki, Mihoko. “Gender, Class, and the Social Order in Late Elizabethan Drama.” Theatre Journal, vol. 44, no. 1, 1992, pp. 31–45. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3208514. Accessed 25 Mar. 2024.
Lapham, Ella Caroline. “The Industrial Status of Women in Elizabethan England.” Journal of Political Economy, vol. 9, no. 4, 1901, pp. 562–99. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1819353. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.
Montrose, Louis Adrian. “‘Shaping Fantasies’: Figurations of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture.” Representations, no. 2, 1983, pp. 61–94. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2928384. Accessed 25 Mar. 2024.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Jacob, Leah, MA. “Great Chain of Being.” Salem Press Encyclopedia, Jan. 2023. EBSCOhost, http://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=9b080e00-d318-32b6-b83e-e891565296f5.
Mercadal, Trudy, MA. “Moor.” Salem Press Encyclopedia, Sept. 2022. EBSCOhost, http://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=fe531fa3-a73d-3b42-a4f9-ce5125e4801c.
Rohland, Lindsay. “Tragedy (Literature).” Salem Press Encyclopedia of Literature, Jan. 2023. EBSCOhost, http://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=b52937e5-b88e-351c-b1dc-424e36624714.
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY: OTHELLO
NEH: OTHELLO AND THE POWER OF LANGUAGE
OPENUni: THE MOORS - BLACK PRESENCE IN THE UK DURING THE TUDOR ERA
UK NATIONAL ARCHIVES: EARLY BLACK PRESENCE AND BRITAIN
BOSTON UNIVERSITY: RACIAL IDEOLOGY AND VILLAINY IN SHAKESPEARE'S OTHELLO
WRITER'S THEATER: WOMEN AND SHAKESPEARE AND THE STAGE
ELIZABETHAN ERA (look at various sections for women, education, marriage, life, times, etc.)
ELIZABETHAN ERA: LIFE AND TIMES
POETRY FOUNDATION: THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE ERA
LUMEN: THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
THE BRITISH LIBRARY: SHAKESPEARE AND RENAISSANCE WRITERS
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE: THE FOUR HUMORS
WELCOME COLLECTION: SHAKESPEARE AND THE FOUR HUMORS