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Jane Adamson considers in detail Othello and explores the ways the play continually undercuts easy moral simplifications as well as the moral questions raised in other characters. This study also illuminates Shakespeare and especially his insight into the need for love, and the dangers that are inseparable from that need.

Table of Contents
Preface; Introduction; 1. The 'comforts' of praise and blame; 2. 'Injuries' and 'remedies': the first two acts; 3. 'Pluming up the will': Iago's place in the play; 4. Personal and professional identity: Othello in the first two acts; 5. 'Alacrity in hardness': Othello's crisis in Acts III and IV; 6. The 'hollow hell' of vengeance: Othello's attempted remedies; 7. Self-charity and self-abnegation: the play's women in love; 8. The 'power to hurt' and 'be hurt', 'past all surgery': the final scene.

Othello as Tragedy

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 10/30/1980 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521297608, 978-0521297608
      ISBN10: 0521297605
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      Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Jane Adamson considers in detail Othello and explores the ways the play continually undercuts easy moral simplifications as well as the moral questions raised in other characters. This study also illuminates Shakespeare and especially his insight into the need for love, and the dangers that are inseparable from that need.

      Table of Contents
      Preface; Introduction; 1. The 'comforts' of praise and blame; 2. 'Injuries' and 'remedies': the first two acts; 3. 'Pluming up the will': Iago's place in the play; 4. Personal and professional identity: Othello in the first two acts; 5. 'Alacrity in hardness': Othello's crisis in Acts III and IV; 6. The 'hollow hell' of vengeance: Othello's attempted remedies; 7. Self-charity and self-abnegation: the play's women in love; 8. The 'power to hurt' and 'be hurt', 'past all surgery': the final scene.

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