Language:
English
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Representations
Angaben zur Quelle:
57 (1997) 73-89
Keywords:
Shakespeare, William,
;
Paul,
;
New Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Antisemitism in literature
Abstract:
Interprets the plot of Shakespeare's "Othello" as a story of the Moor Othello's lapsing into Islam, construed as principally the same religion as Judaism. The Christian world can embrace a dark-skinned barbarian, whose conversion is sincere, but cannot embrace a circumcised one, who, at the end of the play, cuts himself off from Christianity by one stroke, with a knife. The tradition of distinguishing between a pagan who can easily be converted to Christianity because of his innocence, and a Jew who has his own law, and also the identification between Judaism and Islam (through the figure of Ishmael) reverts to the Pauline Epistles to the Romans and Galatians.
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