OthelloAssociated University Presse, 2012 - Drama Critics have praised either "Hamlet" or "King Lear" as the greatest of Shakespeare's "mature" tragendies. Ernst Honigmann, in the most significant edition of the play for a generation, asks: why not "Othello"? This edition sheds new light on the text of the play as we have come to know it, and on our knowledge of its early history. |
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... wife into messes , are revolting.'6 That ' whisper of tattle ' is the difficulty . For if some people have been gripped even to the point of pain , others have been exasperated and incredulous . “ And all that for a pocket handkerchief ...
... wife into messes , are revolting.'6 That ' whisper of tattle ' is the difficulty . For if some people have been gripped even to the point of pain , others have been exasperated and incredulous . “ And all that for a pocket handkerchief ...
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... wife and finds that she is unfaithful ! ' 16 In other words , ' love ' by itself has nothing to say to Leavis's morality or Shaw's reason . It is Ceres and Medusa . As Robert Burton has it in the Anatomy of Melancholy ( 1621 ) ' the ...
... wife and finds that she is unfaithful ! ' 16 In other words , ' love ' by itself has nothing to say to Leavis's morality or Shaw's reason . It is Ceres and Medusa . As Robert Burton has it in the Anatomy of Melancholy ( 1621 ) ' the ...
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... wife that they quite forget his love for his wife . But these two coexist . . . and the tension of the play's climax depends upon their coexistence.21 If this coexistence of seeming opposites is at the heart of the rôle , and of the ...
... wife that they quite forget his love for his wife . But these two coexist . . . and the tension of the play's climax depends upon their coexistence.21 If this coexistence of seeming opposites is at the heart of the rôle , and of the ...
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... the faithless wife in Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness , first performed in 1603 , fully expects Othello - like treatment , indeed worse , from her solid respectable English husband : ' When do you spurn me Introduction 15.
... the faithless wife in Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness , first performed in 1603 , fully expects Othello - like treatment , indeed worse , from her solid respectable English husband : ' When do you spurn me Introduction 15.
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... wife makes eyes at the appren- tice . ' 55 Hence the awkward conclusion that Shakespeare intended something racist , as we would say , by placing such animalism inside a black skin . But the problem melts away , if not for us , at least ...
... wife makes eyes at the appren- tice . ' 55 Hence the awkward conclusion that Shakespeare intended something racist , as we would say , by placing such animalism inside a black skin . But the problem melts away , if not for us , at least ...
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Page 174 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners; so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 162 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse; which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Page 162 - scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history : Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills, whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak ; — such was the process \— And of the cannibals that each other eat. The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 310 - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster.
Page 164 - I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her.
Page 158 - Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience, I will a round...
Page 336 - Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that...
Page 318 - If she come in, she'll sure speak to my wife : My wife ? my wife ? what wife ! I have no wife. O, insupportable ! O heavy hour ! Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration.
Page 336 - And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him, thus.