"Othello's Black Handkerchief"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc205/
Author:
	Smith, Ian.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2013
Publication Information:
	Shakespeare Quarterly 64, no.  1 (2013): 1–25.
Annotation:
	Pointing out that critics generally take for granted that Desdemona's handkerchief is white cloth, focuses instead on the stage property's "relation to Othello, and its role in constructing an idea of blackness and race that places severe constraints on black subjectivity." With a response by Michael Neill, 26-31.
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Neill, Michael
Keywords:
	handkerchief; race; Desdemona; Othello
Tags:
	Othello, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism
WSB Update:
	Summer 2013
WSB Record Number:
	bbbc205