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Reading a series of textual cruxes and glosses in Othello editions, the essay refocuses attention on the 1622–3 printed texts’ description of what we would call ‘sexual intercourse’, and the way in which modern editions attempt to correct/standardize uses of the sexual verb top to tup. At stake are notions of sexuality, sodomy discourse in relation to early modern ‘race’ and human–animal distinctions, power and positionality in historical sexual practices, the relation of textual ‘gloss’ and textual ‘crux’ in Shakespeare editions, and notions of character and coherence in Shakespeare’s plays. The essay argues for integrating scholarship on the intersecting histories of race, gender, and sexuality into editorial work—work often assumed to be prior to criticism and cultural history. |
