Speaking of the Moor: From Alcazar to Othello - Emily Carroll Bartels - Google Books

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title "Speak of me as I am," Othello, the Moor of Venice, bids in the play that bears his name. Yet many have found it impossible to speak of his ethnicity with any certainty. What did it mean to be a…