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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... seems , on the face of it , therefore , scarcely the place to talk about ' authenticity ' of interpretation . And yet when audiences responded as they did to Kean's Shylock , or , say , to Edith Evans ' Millamant in The Way of the World ...
... seems , on the face of it , therefore , scarcely the place to talk about ' authenticity ' of interpretation . And yet when audiences responded as they did to Kean's Shylock , or , say , to Edith Evans ' Millamant in The Way of the World ...
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... seems curiously appropriate . If the point was to enact rather than to explain certain independent states of feeling , then each separate speech has a presentness simply in itself . Working them in with the rest would have been simply a ...
... seems curiously appropriate . If the point was to enact rather than to explain certain independent states of feeling , then each separate speech has a presentness simply in itself . Working them in with the rest would have been simply a ...
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... seem almost commonplace , you would say , Here is a play about a lady who fell in love with a pig . . . marriage between a sooty Moor and a snowy Venetian was a stark new sensation . . .46 The original Othello was probably , in point of ...
... seem almost commonplace , you would say , Here is a play about a lady who fell in love with a pig . . . marriage between a sooty Moor and a snowy Venetian was a stark new sensation . . .46 The original Othello was probably , in point of ...
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... seem , at 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 ...
... seem , at 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 ...
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... seem to mark the distance travelled since then between Othello and his portrayers . 57 And yet , to return to Farjeon , the spectacle of the Moor must have been strangely thrilling . For all that his behaviour separated him from English ...
... seem to mark the distance travelled since then between Othello and his portrayers . 57 And yet , to return to Farjeon , the spectacle of the Moor must have been strangely thrilling . For all that his behaviour separated him from English ...
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Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 164 - I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her.
Side 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...
Side 336 - Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that...
Side 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.
Side 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.