Othello
Ou le Maure de Venise
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- 0,99 €
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Général au service de Venise, Othello est un homme heureux, au sommet de sa gloire. Envoyé à Chypre pour combattre les Turcs, il est servi par la tempête qui balaie la flotte ennemie, et rejoint sa femme Desdémone pour une nuit de fête. Mais son bonheur est fragile : le perfide lago, jaloux et machiavélique, multiplie les intrigues pour empoisonner leur joie. Mené par la haine, lago persuade Othello de la trahison de sa femme. Et le héros superbe et généreux tombe dans le piège qui signera sa perte...
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More than a retelling, this aptly termed "reconceptualization" provocatively modernizes Shakespeare's play. As in the original, the middle-aged general Othello the ``moor'' and young European noblewoman Desdemona fall in love and marry secretly. But Lester (To Be a Slave; John Henry) transplants the action from Venice and Cyprus to Elizabethan England and turns Iago and Emily into Africans like Othello, so that the three of them share a distinctly non-European point of view. Iago's envy of Othello and ability to whip him into a jealous rage at Desdemona are thus cast in a new light, though the tragic outcome remains the same. While the ending feels abrupt, Lester's novel succeeds in holding up a mirror to contemporary society. Phrases and passages directly based on Shakespeare's language are printed in a different typeface, a device that may distract the reader but eases comparisons with the original work. Ages 8-12.
