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... Othello . In keeping with my general approach , I would agree with Helen Gardner about the strength and value of the overwhelming main first impression.25 To go back and contradict , for the sake of a more subtle reading , the feeling ...
... Othello . In keeping with my general approach , I would agree with Helen Gardner about the strength and value of the overwhelming main first impression.25 To go back and contradict , for the sake of a more subtle reading , the feeling ...
Page 120
... Othello , Iago , a negative commentator , so to speak , leads us to protest on Othello's behalf , while as plot ma- nipulator he impresses us strongly : otherwise we would probably be unable to accept , by however slender a margin , the ...
... Othello , Iago , a negative commentator , so to speak , leads us to protest on Othello's behalf , while as plot ma- nipulator he impresses us strongly : otherwise we would probably be unable to accept , by however slender a margin , the ...
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... Othello , which offers an experience perhaps more like that of Romeo and Juliet : the lovers are victims of errors and chances - with the added dimension , of course , of the contriv- ances of Iago , the perversion of commentary and ...
... Othello , which offers an experience perhaps more like that of Romeo and Juliet : the lovers are victims of errors and chances - with the added dimension , of course , of the contriv- ances of Iago , the perversion of commentary and ...
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