Political Discourse and Ideology in the English and Turkish Othellos

This paper aims to explore how the ideologies, political discourses, and “dissident stories” in othello, including the discourse on the turks, have been dealt with in three turkish translations. evidently, most of the conflicts in shakespeare’s plays are confrontations between ideologies. for instance, the medieval world of feudalism versus the modern realm of bourgeoisie, patriarchy versus feminist ideology, the ottoman empire versus europe, republicanism versus monarchy, racism and othering versus multiculturalism and hybridity, and protestantism versus catholicism are some of the rivaling ideologies in othello. the three turkish translations of othello i examine in my paper are by orhan burian (1943), ülkü tamer (1964), and özdemir nutku (1985).