Shakespeare: Invention of the Human: The Invention of the Human"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. |
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Page 434
... Othello and Coriolanus exclude all laughter , as if to protect two great captains from the Falstaffian perspective . When Othello , doubtless the fastest sword in his profession , wants to stop a street fight , he need only utter the ...
... Othello and Coriolanus exclude all laughter , as if to protect two great captains from the Falstaffian perspective . When Othello , doubtless the fastest sword in his profession , wants to stop a street fight , he need only utter the ...
Page 471
... Othello can understand , while " I am your own for ever " seals Othello's starry and elemental fate . What remains is only the way down and out , for everyone involved . 5 Shakespeare creates a terrible pathos for us by not showing ...
... Othello can understand , while " I am your own for ever " seals Othello's starry and elemental fate . What remains is only the way down and out , for everyone involved . 5 Shakespeare creates a terrible pathos for us by not showing ...
Page 473
... Othello's implicit cry . The rapidity and totality of Othello's descent seems at once the play's one weakness and its most persuasive strength , as persuasive as lago . Desdemona dies so piteously that Shakespeare risks alienating us ...
... Othello's implicit cry . The rapidity and totality of Othello's descent seems at once the play's one weakness and its most persuasive strength , as persuasive as lago . Desdemona dies so piteously that Shakespeare risks alienating us ...
Contents
Shakespeares Universalism | 1 |
The Comedy of Errors | 21 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 28 |
Copyright | |
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