Shakespeare's Invention of Othello: A Study in Early Modern EnglishMacmillan, 1988 - 284 pagina's Did Shakespeare succeed in his characterisation of Othello? Or is the noble but degraded Moor psychologically implausible? This book enters an old controversy in a new way. Martin Elliott takes fully into account the fact that Shakespeare was writing in Early Modern English and explores word-meanings and syntax and finds an extended consistency. |
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Pagina 13
... talk of proper satisfaction would seem to be revised . It might be a concubine , a mistress , a camp - follower used solely for disport that he is talking about . Desdemona as a wife is not recog- nised . Her rights , and her idealistic ...
... talk of proper satisfaction would seem to be revised . It might be a concubine , a mistress , a camp - follower used solely for disport that he is talking about . Desdemona as a wife is not recog- nised . Her rights , and her idealistic ...
Pagina 20
... talk foolishly or stupidly ' ( OED , Dote v.1 , I.1 ) . Desdemona is not to know what we know in retrospect : that here is more of the author's dramatic irony ; and that Othello is to subject the two of them to a far worse storm of ...
... talk foolishly or stupidly ' ( OED , Dote v.1 , I.1 ) . Desdemona is not to know what we know in retrospect : that here is more of the author's dramatic irony ; and that Othello is to subject the two of them to a far worse storm of ...
Pagina 30
... talk of the fruits of a wedding – happy married life and children - as he led Desdemona to bed at the start of II..iii . It could mean ' fertility ' , and had already come to denote a generosity of spirit as well . ( This last is Iago's ...
... talk of the fruits of a wedding – happy married life and children - as he led Desdemona to bed at the start of II..iii . It could mean ' fertility ' , and had already come to denote a generosity of spirit as well . ( This last is Iago's ...
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But to be free and bounteous to her minde | 1 |
But that I loue the gentle Desdemona | 54 |
Who can controll his Fate? | 75 |
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