Not that I've seen. When I've seen the Moor debate re: Othello it's been things like in reaction to Paul Robeson and in excusing Ben Kingsley at the RSC (Asian man instead of black actor). Aaron's not the title character famous white actors had played for centuries either...
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Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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To me, there is no doubt that both Othello and Aaron are Black, hailing from sub-Saharan Africa. The Peacham sketch is evidence for Aaron. Othello's narrative of his life would sound much more like a Black man than a middle-Eastern man to Shakespeare's audience.pic.twitter.com/YV5hilVe23
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Excellent points. I also wonder if the “debate” on Othello’s blackness isn’t motivated by C18-19 notions that Shakespeare would write a black villain but not a black hero. And then reading that back into histories of the period.
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I haven’t heard any debate about Aaron’s Moorish identity. Likely, as already said, because Black villain is easy to accept. But also, maybe, because Aaron only ever tries to be Black and a villain. Othello tries and fails to be White. But his efforts are worth critiquing(?).
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I want to know more about this trying to be white, re: Othello. I think the same but I want to know where you see it in the play. Agree on Aaron, it’s playing to type, particularly with other stage Moors.
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Thanks for this reference!
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I too know no debate about Aaron. I wonder how performance affects this— white actors wanting to be seen in a particular way by the audience. To
@ProfKFH point, they don’t want to embody someone so base. And I wonder how much material practices of blackening played a role. -
And by that I mean less makeup or less dark makeup= a better view of an actor’s face perhaps.
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