Shakespeare on Screen: Othello

Sarah Hatchuel is Professor of English Literature and Film at the University of Le Havre and the President of the Société Française Shakespeare. She has written extensively on adaptations of Shakespeare's plays. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Cleopatra/Caesar Intertext: Sequel, Conflation, Remake (2011) and Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen (Cambridge, 2004). She also edited Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra in The New Kittredge Shakespeare collection (2008) and co-edited, with Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin, the Shakespeare on Screen series (from 2003-13. Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin is Professor in Shakespeare Studies at Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier. She is Co-General Editor (with Jean-Christophe Mayer) of Cahiers Élisabéthains and co-director (with Patricia Dorval) of the Shakespeare on Screen in Francophonia Database (shakscreen.org). She is the author of The Unruly Tongue in Early Modern England, Three Treatises (2012) and co-edited, with Sarah Hatchuel, the Shakespeare on Screen series (from 2003-13.

• 1. Introduction: ensnared in Othello on screen Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin; 2. Othello on screen: monsters, marvellous space and the power of the tale Victoria Bladen; 3. Rethinking blackness: the case of Olivier's Othello Peter Holland; 4. Othello retold: Orson Welles's Filming Othello Sébastien Lefait; 5. 'Institutionally racist': Sax's Othello and tethered presentism Peter J. Smith; 6. Intertextuality in Tim Blake Nelson's 'O' Ronan Ludot-Vlasak; 7. Indianizing Othello: Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara Florence Cabaret; 8. Othello in Latin America: Otelo de Oliveira and Huapango Aimara da Cunha Resende; 9. Othello in Québec: André Forcier's Une histoire inventée Jennifer Drouin; 10. Anna's Sin and the circulation of Othello on film Douglas M. Lanier; 11. Mirroring Othello in genre films: A Double Life and Stage Beauty Kinga Földváry; 12. Othello in Spanish: dubbed and subtitled versions Jesús Tronch; 13. Othello on screen: select film-bibliography José Ramón Díaz Fernández; Index.

'Shakespeare on Screen: Othello overturns conventional narratives about this play's life on screen. Hatchuel and Vienne-Guerrin curate a volume that treats Othello as a truly international text, privileging little-known meta-narratives alongside mainstream Western cinema. Essays unpack the adaptations' engagement with domestic violence, racial prejudice and sexual politics, making this the most vital and thorough treatment available of the play's contemporary resonance.' Peter Kirwan, University of Nottingham