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By examining the understudies history and culture of Cyprus in the context of sixteenth-century writing, Christofides raises new questions for early modern scholars of drama ... His book demonstrates how histories from varying times intersect with Shakespeare and place. * Sixteenth Century Journal *

By examining the understudies history and culture of Cyprus in the context of sixteenth-century writing, Christofides raises new questions for early modern scholars of drama … His book demonstrates how histories from varying times intersect with Shakespeare and place. * Sixteenth Century Journal * As Christofides reads Othello alongside Cyprus’s twentieth- and twenty-first-century turmoil, he conveys the religious, national, and ethnic hybridity of both the island and the play ... Othello’s Secret enthusiastically embraces critical iconoclasm; it is the book on Othello and Cyprus, which is to say its formal hybridity authentically reflects the cultural hybridity of its subject matter. * Shakespeare Quarterly *

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R M Christofides is a Shakespeare scholar with interests in Cyprus and the Middle East. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Apocalypse: Visions of Doom from Early Modern Tragedy to Popular Culture and numerous articles on the relationship between early modern culture and the present.

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