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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Strana 16
... beginning responded " with a self - dramatizing egotism : as early as the opening scenes of the play , according to Leavis , " the essential trai- tor is within the gates " ( 139 ) . And this is where Bradley comes back into the picture ...
... beginning responded " with a self - dramatizing egotism : as early as the opening scenes of the play , according to Leavis , " the essential trai- tor is within the gates " ( 139 ) . And this is where Bradley comes back into the picture ...
Strana 21
... beginning of the First Folio ( “ He was not of an age , but for all time ! " ) , and similar claims were often even rou- tinely made through the end of the nineteenth century . They have been subjected to a skeptical scrutiny in the ...
... beginning of the First Folio ( “ He was not of an age , but for all time ! " ) , and similar claims were often even rou- tinely made through the end of the nineteenth century . They have been subjected to a skeptical scrutiny in the ...
Strana 29
... beginning , or at least deeply flawed and vulnerable ; but if Oth- ello's collapse seems merely predictable and even in a sense justified , then all the testimonials we have witnessed to an unendurably painful play must be dismissed as ...
... beginning , or at least deeply flawed and vulnerable ; but if Oth- ello's collapse seems merely predictable and even in a sense justified , then all the testimonials we have witnessed to an unendurably painful play must be dismissed as ...
Strana 30
... beginning of Othello ? Two men enter , arguing . We know they are angry- " abhor , " " hate , " and " despise " are spat out in the first few seconds - but not why . Presumably the black cloth hung at the rear of the stage signals a ...
... beginning of Othello ? Two men enter , arguing . We know they are angry- " abhor , " " hate , " and " despise " are spat out in the first few seconds - but not why . Presumably the black cloth hung at the rear of the stage signals a ...
Strana 31
... 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 ) . As John Shaw demonstrates , versions of this question recur like ...
... 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 ) . As John Shaw demonstrates , versions of this question recur like ...
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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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