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Nouhr-Dine D. Akondo.

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Studies on Shakespeare’s Othello have looked at race and ethnic issues in the play. Many scholars have also shown how race differences are dramatized in the construction of the play. in Othello, it is evident to see that characters oppose one another due to societal and political reasons. However, little has been said about tropes laid by the playwright in order to materialise race-ridden conflicts and suggest how peace can become a reality out of a perpetual effort and compromises. This justifies the endeavour to highlight race issues and conflicts as instruments of dramatic representation fashioned to approach the notion of peace from a different perspective. It is the purpose of this article to analyse the underlying stereotypes as clues that function to maintain the major conflicts of the play and also suggest a way to unconditional peace. The theoretical framework falls under Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction built on the notion of “différance” and will treat Othello as a system of binary differences in which race, stereotypes and peace are aesthetically interwoven to dramatize racialisation in Tudor England.

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