Othello and Interpretive TraditionsUniversity of Iowa Press, 1. 2. 2012 - Počet stran: 228 During the past twenty years or so, Othello has become the Shakespearean tragedy that speaks most powerfully to our contemporary concerns. Focusing on race and gender (and on class, ethnicity, sexuality, and nationality), the play talks about what audiences want to talk about. Yet at the same time, as refracted through Iago, it forces us to hear what we do not want to hear; like the characters in the play, we become trapped in our own prejudicial malice and guilt. |
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... Brabantio , Iago's first victim , feels defenseless against Iago's suggestions : " This accident is not unlike my dream , / Belief of it op- presses me already " ( 1.1.140-141 ) . Cassio and Othello seem to be de- fenseless as well ...
... Brabantio , Iago's first victim , feels defenseless against Iago's suggestions : " This accident is not unlike my dream , / Belief of it op- presses me already " ( 1.1.140-141 ) . Cassio and Othello seem to be de- fenseless as well ...
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... Brabantio ( 1.3.107 ) . " Good " and " useful " are empty and evasive terms , and to fill them with meaning would require developing substantial arguments about the cur- rent scene of Shakespearean interpretation and about the value and ...
... Brabantio ( 1.3.107 ) . " Good " and " useful " are empty and evasive terms , and to fill them with meaning would require developing substantial arguments about the cur- rent scene of Shakespearean interpretation and about the value and ...
Strana 31
... Brabantio's entering question a moment later echoes Iago at the very beginning , " If ever I did dream / Of such a matter , abhor me " ( 4-5 ) and is in turn echoed by Othello in the next scene , " What's the matter , think you ? " ( 38 ) ...
... Brabantio's entering question a moment later echoes Iago at the very beginning , " If ever I did dream / Of such a matter , abhor me " ( 4-5 ) and is in turn echoed by Othello in the next scene , " What's the matter , think you ? " ( 38 ) ...
Strana 32
... Brabantio ( can we avoid hearing " ewe " as “ you ? ” ) but us . ' We have been longing for knowledge , and now Iago thrusts it on us with a vengeance . At the minimal level of being able to specify “ the matter , ” then , we are ...
... Brabantio ( can we avoid hearing " ewe " as “ you ? ” ) but us . ' We have been longing for knowledge , and now Iago thrusts it on us with a vengeance . At the minimal level of being able to specify “ the matter , ” then , we are ...
Strana 33
... Brabantio , Iago makes systematic use of conventional ideas about black origins in acts of sexual transgression and diabolically inspired violation of the father's authority and property rights ( “ thieves , thieves , thieves ...
... Brabantio , Iago makes systematic use of conventional ideas about black origins in acts of sexual transgression and diabolically inspired violation of the father's authority and property rights ( “ thieves , thieves , thieves ...
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11 | |
30 | |
lago | 53 |
The Fall of Othello | 79 |
The Pity Act | 113 |
Death without Transfiguration | 141 |
Interpretation as Contamination | 169 |
Character Endures | 183 |
Notes | 193 |
Works Cited | 231 |
Index | 247 |
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