READING SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS IN THE LIGHT OF EDWARD SAID'S ORIENTALISM
Iffat Sharmin
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READING SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS IN THE LIGHT OF EDWARD SAID'S ORIENTALISM

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, OTHELLO, AND THE TEMPEST

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William Shakespeare's plays reflect Elizabethan society.By manipulating our senses of what constitutes reality,plays/texts evoke people and culture for us.By telling us tales of the Orient and the Orientals,Shakespeare actually represents them.He speaks for' Orientals rather than letting Orientals speak for themselves.In the process he 2orientalizes" them in the sense indicated by Edward Said in Orientalism.The Merchant of Venice,Othello, and The Tempest show how Orientals are portrayed as the "Other" by Shakespeare and throw light on the sixteenth century's hegemonic representations of Orient...