Shakespearean CriticismCengage Gale, 2003 - 464 pages Presents literary criticism on the plays and poetry of Shakespeare. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, newspapers, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Includes commentary by Shakespeare's contemporaries as well as a full range of views from later centuries, with an emphasis on contemporary analysis. Includes aesthetic criticism, textual criticism, and criticism of Shakespeare in performance. |
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Page 134
... Desdemona's prostitution consisted in . When Othello sardonically takes on the role of Desdemona's bawd before Lodovico , one can similarly detect beneath his contempt the pressure of his own sexual knowledge of her : DESDEMONA ...
... Desdemona's prostitution consisted in . When Othello sardonically takes on the role of Desdemona's bawd before Lodovico , one can similarly detect beneath his contempt the pressure of his own sexual knowledge of her : DESDEMONA ...
Page 138
... Desdemona's predicament can be gathered from the treatment she often receives from her literary crit- ics . A recent psychoanalytic interpretation of the play , for instance , reports that Desdemona reassures Cassio by saying " quite ...
... Desdemona's predicament can be gathered from the treatment she often receives from her literary crit- ics . A recent psychoanalytic interpretation of the play , for instance , reports that Desdemona reassures Cassio by saying " quite ...
Page 154
... Desdemona's kisses as if that purity itself were a possession a thief might have stolen : " I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips . / He that is robb'd , not wanting what is stol'n , / Let him not know't , and he's not robb'd at all ...
... Desdemona's kisses as if that purity itself were a possession a thief might have stolen : " I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips . / He that is robb'd , not wanting what is stol'n , / Let him not know't , and he's not robb'd at all ...
Contents
The Jealousy of Leontes | 156 |
Further Reading | 174 |
Character Studies | 189 |
Copyright | |
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