Category: Shakespeare literature

This a performance project in which you make an adaptation from a Shakespeare play in which you are the director. The Plays you can choose from are Taming of the Shrew and Richard II. All directions and samples of what the project is supposed to look like will be provided. As well as some notes.

My research topic is “Effect of Language and Rhetoric on Political Ambition and Betrayal in Julius Caesar.”
Write a well developed paper based on my topic please and let me know if you have any questions

Discuss why human nature is naive using Othello.  
I preferably wanted to speak about how Othello’s naivety allowed him to be manipulated by Iago into believing that Desdemona was cheating on him.
I need 2-3 articles that support this topic.  
It needs to be 5-7 pages, size 12 Times New Roman font, double-spaced lines.  The Works Cited page needs to be in MLA format.  
Research options include JSTOR, university websites, and professional periodicals.

In “We Are Othello: Speaking of Race in Early Modern Studies,” Ian Smith asks audiences to identify with Othello, to consider the possibility that, “It is we who are Othello.” From this perspective, Smith argues, Othello is continually at war and dies a fallen soldier in society’s race war. “Shakespeare’s suspension of the Turkish aggression forces us to recognize that conflict continues as a major issue but in the form of an internal ‘race war’ initiated by the play’s resident racist, Iago. In place of the violent clash of military warfare, the audience is treated instead to Iago’s more covert but no less destructive operations that generate Othello’s racial anxiety and self-hate.” Consider Smith’s argument and draw on at least one scene in the play to offer your own perspective as to whether you are able to see Othello sympathetically as a soldier who dies a victim lost to his and our society’s race wars
My ideas that the professor told me to try to include:
Two parts show how he (Othello) is good in part one and then in part two show how Iago manipulated him and turned him bad
Reasons why I sympathize with Othello(You could include but necessary)
The fact that he is insecure about being black and that he thinks that he is below his wife.
The fact that he is black and people are racist.
A Lot of people talk down to him othello.
He was deceived and lied to by iago.
Link for Othello:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10da20dzdXrBV_Ds2j2aaNd_4YxSa6FNPMLqQsc9Fv6g/edit#heading=h.gy8oaus9dehl
Link for Ian Smith interpretation:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ey9LPdK2HCsnsdv_YmdlS1SFEa1jAO6IankYs9UujTQ/edit