The peculiarity of Othello / A. C. Bradley -- Othello--an interpretation / Eldred Jones -- Orthello's handkerchief : "the recognizance and pledge of love" / Lynda Boose -- Women and men in Othello / Carol Thomas Neely -- Ethiops washed white : Moors of the nonvillainous type / Anthony Gerard Barthelemy -- The sound of O in Othello : the real of the tragedy of desire / Joel Fineman -- "And wash the Ethiop white" : feminity and the monstrous in Othello / Karen Newman -- The second quarto of Othello and the question of textual "authority" / Thomas L. Berger -- Sexuality and racial difference / Ania Loomba -- Unproper beds : race, adultery, and the hideous in Othello / Michael Neill -- Lieutenancy, standing in, and Othello / Julia Genster