Othello As Tragedy
Some Problems of Judgement and Feeling
- Author: Jane Adamson
- Date Published: April 2011
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- isbn: 9780511865787
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Critical views of Othello have polarized during the last forty years. The dispute is between those who follow Coleridge and Bradley and see Othello as noble but diabolically misled, and those who follow Eliot and Leavis and see him as a criminal egotist. Jane Adamson argues that both views are too simple and that both deprive the play of tragic point. She is concerned to reinstate the play as a great tragedy, and Othello as a complex tragic figure. She considers in detail how the drama unfolds; how Othello's predicament provides a focus for moral questions raised in all the other characters; how the reader or spectator becomes painfully involved with similar questions in trying to understand the action; and how in these ways the play continually undercuts easy moral simplifications. During this study a great deal else in Shakespeare is illuminated - especially his insight into the need for love, and the dangers that are inseparable from that need.
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- Date Published: April 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511865787
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
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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