This item is taken from PN Review 218, Volume 40 Number 6, July - August 2014.
Letter from J. Kates
A Round Unvarnish’d Tale
Sir:
I have been reading PNR 217 slowly, with pleasure. Vahni Capildeo’s reflections remind me of a production of Othello I once saw in Newcastle (a touring company of the RSC, if I remember correctly) that had all the cast speaking conventional late twentieth-century stage diction, but Othello himself nineteenth-century oratorical. Capildeo catches this by calling him ‘a linguistic mismatch for his entire play’.
j. kates
by email
Sir:
I have been reading PNR 217 slowly, with pleasure. Vahni Capildeo’s reflections remind me of a production of Othello I once saw in Newcastle (a touring company of the RSC, if I remember correctly) that had all the cast speaking conventional late twentieth-century stage diction, but Othello himself nineteenth-century oratorical. Capildeo catches this by calling him ‘a linguistic mismatch for his entire play’.
j. kates
by email
This item is taken from PN Review 218, Volume 40 Number 6, July - August 2014.
