Constructing Alterity: Race, Gender, and the Body in Shakespeare’s Othello

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Foreword VII
4. Introduction. Performances, Regulations and Negotiations of the Renaissance Body. Legal and Social Perspectives 1
5. I. Trying “Other” Bodies: The Witch, the Black and the Old
6. (Disciplining) Monstrous Renaissance Bodies: Staging the Witch 29
7. “…Languished…, and then died”: Courtroom Drama and the Bodies of the Victims in Thomas Pott’s The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches (1612) 61
8. Constructing Alterity: Race, Gender, and the Body in Shakespeare’s Othello 73
9. Staged and Staging Bodies as Legal and Medical sites in Volpone 107
10. II Codification of the Body Politic and Common Law Jurisprudence
11. Representing the Body of Law in Early Modern England 135
12. The Image of Power: Shakespeare’s Lord Chief Justice 145
13. With Teeth and Nails: The Embodied Inservitude of Étienne de La Boétie 157
14. III. Liminal Bodies: The Life/Death Edge on Stage and in the Body Politic
15. The Funeral Oration over Caesar’s Body: Techniques of Mass Communication 183
16. Motionless Bodies: Shakespeare’s Songs for Sleep and Death 207
17. IV. Staging the Queenly Body: The Performance of a Female Body Politic
18. Katechontic Elizabeth: The Physical Repository of Sovereignty through Law, Literature and Iconography 229
19. Anna of Denmark and the Performance of the Queen Consort’s Sovereignty 247
20. The Body Politic, Female Transgression and Punishment in Jacobean Tragedy 273
21. Index 295