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Adapting Othello for television in late Francoist Spain: It’s all about the ‘Moor’
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"Othello" in European culture
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Campillo Arnaiz, L., & Bandín Fuertes, E. (2022). Adapting Othello for television in late Francoist Spain: it’s all about the “Moor”. En E. Bandín Fuertes, F. Rayner, & L. Campillo Arnaiz (eds.), «Othello» in European culture (pp. 173-189). John Benjamins.
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John Benjamins
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2022
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[EN] Estudio 1 was a TV theatre series created during Franco’s dictatorship in which
Shakespeare’s plays were regularly produced to serve the propaganda interests
of the regime. In this paper, we explore a Estudio 1 production of Othello (1972)
analyzing the contradictory meanings and readings that the figure of the ‘Moor’
has in the Spanish collective imaginary. The portrayal of Othello by the late
Francoist TV adaptation confirms and authorises Spanish fears and prejudices
about a militaristic, exotic but ultimately jealous and brutal ‘Moor’, who must be
different from any form of ‘Spanish’ identity. The Shakespearean tragedy there fore offers the perfect opportunity to legitimise the ‘Moor’ as constructed in the
crucible of Spanish history and memory – a dangerous ‘Other’ whose ultimate
death following Iago’s revenge is a political and cultural necessity at the end of
the tragedy.
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