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The new 'Othello Music': From the play text to opera, diegetic/non-diegetic soundtracks and popular music allusions
Ist Teil von
Journal of adaptation in film & performance, 2015-12, Vol.8 (3), p.195-211
Ort / Verlag
Intellect
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This article critically examines the relationship between Othello and music, from the play text to opera, popular music allusions, and diegetic and non-diegetic soundtracks, analysing its adaptability/inadaptability in various contexts, with a focus on the issue of race. It does this
through the lenses of adaptation studies and the singular history that adaptations of Shakespeare's work have. The central question addressed is: what do musical adaptations reveal about the adaptability of the play? What this article aims to achieve - and that which has not been
undertaken previously - is to expand the lines of analysis from G. Wilson Knight's conception of the 'The Othello music' to sustained consideration of musical adaptations across periods and media, combining a discussion of the Moor's 'musicality' with
re-representations of race, deducing whether or not it sits as uneasily in musical forms as it does in screen adaptations.