OthelloAssociated University Presse, 2012 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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... least 1693 when Thomas Rymer , in a celebrated attack , anticipated the Italian lady , exclaiming : ' so much ado , so much stress , so much passion and repetition about a handerchief ! ' He concluded that the piece was nothing but a ...
... least 1693 when Thomas Rymer , in a celebrated attack , anticipated the Italian lady , exclaiming : ' so much ado , so much stress , so much passion and repetition about a handerchief ! ' He concluded that the piece was nothing but a ...
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... least ) , has interest strayed outside that tight triangle . Socio - political themes hover somewhere near the play , but without quite touching it . Paul Robeson and Olivier tried to make them overt , but as Charles Marowitz discovered ...
... least ) , has interest strayed outside that tight triangle . Socio - political themes hover somewhere near the play , but without quite touching it . Paul Robeson and Olivier tried to make them overt , but as Charles Marowitz discovered ...
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... least in part , and with Othello he sets up a kind of oscillation between the public and private character of the play , the comedy and the tragedy which , as we have seen , can lie so uneasily together in modern productions . As ...
... least in part , and with Othello he sets up a kind of oscillation between the public and private character of the play , the comedy and the tragedy which , as we have seen , can lie so uneasily together in modern productions . As ...
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... Shakespearian couple . Herbert Farjeon , writing in 1933 , chooses an offensive analogy , but at least it takes the play out of that cultural no - man's - land : if an Elizabethan had been asked what Othello was about 12 Introduction.
... Shakespearian couple . Herbert Farjeon , writing in 1933 , chooses an offensive analogy , but at least it takes the play out of that cultural no - man's - land : if an Elizabethan had been asked what Othello was about 12 Introduction.
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... least to Thomas Rymer , ludicrously perverse . 54 It is precisely at the first glance that Othello shakes all these assumptions . The ribaldry of Iago and Roderigo , and the horror of Brabantio in the first scene , set going the usual ...
... least to Thomas Rymer , ludicrously perverse . 54 It is precisely at the first glance that Othello shakes all these assumptions . The ribaldry of Iago and Roderigo , and the horror of Brabantio in the first scene , set going the usual ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 164 - I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her.
Página 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...
Página 336 - Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that...
Página 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.
Página 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.
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