SOURCE: Aubrey, James R. “Race and the Spectacle of the Monstrous in Othello.” CLIO 22, no. 3 (spring 1993): 221-38.
In the following essay, Aubrey examines the characterization of Othello within the context of contemporary English Renaissance associations of blacks with monsters, and demonstrates the ways in which such associations would have heightened the response of early audiences to Othello's character.
