Othello and apartheid - for iPod/iPhone

The Open University

Can a play written in the seventeenth century protest against contemporary issues? Is it possible to use a Shakespearian tragedy draw attention to political injustice? Apartheid was a system of enforced legal racial segregation in South Africa that was imposed on the country's majority non white inhabitants by the minority white population. In 1988 actress and director Janet Suzman took the decision to defy the racist apartheid regime by staging ...Read More

Can a play written in the seventeenth century protest against contemporary issues? Is it p...Read More