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 3
... beliefs and assumptions are not easily accommodated to our own . The SHAKSPER discussion suggests as much . Most of it was motivated by the belief that the presumed fit between the play and the murders was rather a misfit ; either it ...
... beliefs and assumptions are not easily accommodated to our own . The SHAKSPER discussion suggests as much . Most of it was motivated by the belief that the presumed fit between the play and the murders was rather a misfit ; either it ...
Strana 4
... belief , the fraught and problematic process by which convictions are settled in the mind . In A. C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy , which may be taken as repre- sentative of nineteenth - century interpretive practice , the matter led ...
... belief , the fraught and problematic process by which convictions are settled in the mind . In A. C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy , which may be taken as repre- sentative of nineteenth - century interpretive practice , the matter led ...
Strana 5
... belief . How can we explain Iago's spectacular success in shaping not just Othello's understanding but almost everyone else's as well ? Brabantio , Iago's first victim , feels defenseless against Iago's suggestions : " This accident is ...
... belief . How can we explain Iago's spectacular success in shaping not just Othello's understanding but almost everyone else's as well ? Brabantio , Iago's first victim , feels defenseless against Iago's suggestions : " This accident is ...
Strana 16
... belief represented in Bradley's work . In Leavis , this anti - Bradleyan focus is made explicit . His essay is from first to last a ferocious ad hominem attack on Bradley for the " sentimental perversity ” of his affectionate admiration ...
... belief represented in Bradley's work . In Leavis , this anti - Bradleyan focus is made explicit . His essay is from first to last a ferocious ad hominem attack on Bradley for the " sentimental perversity ” of his affectionate admiration ...
Strana 20
... believing lago - Exchange me for a goat When I shall turn the business of my soul To such exsufflicate and blown surmises , Matching thy inference . ( 3.3 183–186 ) and then promptly performs the utter foolishness he proclaims . Hol ...
... believing lago - Exchange me for a goat When I shall turn the business of my soul To such exsufflicate and blown surmises , Matching thy inference . ( 3.3 183–186 ) and then promptly performs the utter foolishness he proclaims . Hol ...
Obsah
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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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