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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... response going back nearly to the play's origi- nal production . As I see Othello , its effects develop out of the peculiar way it shares out the central space of its action - and fractures its at- tractive power equally between the ...
... response going back nearly to the play's origi- nal production . As I see Othello , its effects develop out of the peculiar way it shares out the central space of its action - and fractures its at- tractive power equally between the ...
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... response appropriate to heroic tragedy , or both . " Let's stop talking about this ! " SHAKSPERians kept saying , in the angry and inevitably self - defeating denials that have char- acterized so much Othello commentary going back to ...
... response appropriate to heroic tragedy , or both . " Let's stop talking about this ! " SHAKSPERians kept saying , in the angry and inevitably self - defeating denials that have char- acterized so much Othello commentary going back to ...
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... response record . The sense of painful double bind I described earlier in contemporary response to Othello is not unique to our time . Trying to account for " the peculiarity of Othello " as " the most painfully exciting and the most ...
... response record . The sense of painful double bind I described earlier in contemporary response to Othello is not unique to our time . Trying to account for " the peculiarity of Othello " as " the most painfully exciting and the most ...
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... response that continues more or less unbroken to our own day . The stage history of Othello is full of stories about audiences so disturbed that they could not contain them- selves within the bounds of conventional response . Jean ...
... response that continues more or less unbroken to our own day . The stage history of Othello is full of stories about audiences so disturbed that they could not contain them- selves within the bounds of conventional response . Jean ...
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... responses where the play's disturbing power is revealed but remains unacknowledged . The earliest sustained commentary on Othello is in Thomas Rymer's Short View of Tragedy ( 1693 ) , which includes an often wittily detailed invective ...
... responses where the play's disturbing power is revealed but remains unacknowledged . The earliest sustained commentary on Othello is in Thomas Rymer's Short View of Tragedy ( 1693 ) , which includes an often wittily detailed invective ...
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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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