The Improbability Of Othello

Author : Joel B. Altman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226016129
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Improbability of Othello written by Joel B. Altman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare’s dramatis personae exist in a world of supposition, struggling to connect knowledge that cannot be had, judgments that must be made, and actions that need to be taken. For them, probability—what they and others might be persuaded to believe—governs human affairs, not certainty. Yet negotiating the space of probability is fraught with difficulty. Here, Joel B. Altman explores the problematics of probability and the psychology of persuasion in Renaissance rhetoric and Shakespeare’s theater. Focusing on the Tragedy of Othello, Altman investigates Shakespeare’s representation of the self as a specific realization of tensions pervading the rhetorical culture in which he was educated and practiced his craft. In Altman’s account, Shakespeare also restrains and energizes his audiences’ probabilizing capacities, alternately playing the skeptical critic and dramaturgic trickster. A monumental work of scholarship by one of America’s most respected scholars of Renaissance literature, The Improbability of Othello contributes fresh ideas to our understanding of Shakespeare’s conception of the self, his shaping of audience response, and the relationship of actors to his texts.

Author : Lena Cowen Orlin
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408186039
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Othello: The State of Play written by Lena Cowen Orlin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Othello has a long history of provoking profound emotion in its audiences and readers. This 'freeze frame' volume showcases current debates and ideas about the play's provocative effects. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to the needs of students, teachers, and researchers. Key issues and themes include: - Gender, Love, and Desire - Race, Ethnicity, and Difference - Social Relations, Status, and Ambition - Tragedy, Comedy, and Parody - Language, Expression, and Characterization All the essays offer new perspectives and combine to give readers an up-to-date understanding of what's exciting and challenging about Othello. The approach based on an individual play, unlike that of topic-based series, reflects how Shakespeare is most commonly studied and taught.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770486410
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Othello written by William Shakespeare and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although other Shakespeare plays offer higher body counts, more gore, and more plentiful scenes of heartbreak, Othello packs an unusually powerful affective punch, stunning us with its depiction of the swiftness and thoroughness with which love can be converted to hatred, and forcing us to confront our complicity with social and political institutions that can put all of us—but especially the most vulnerable among us—at risk. This edition features a variety of interleaved materials—from maps and manuscripts to illustrations and extended discussions of myth and politics—that provide a context for the social and cultural allusions in the play. Appendices offer excerpts from Shakespeare’s key sources and historical materials on marriage, jealousy, and the treatment of people of African descent in Renaissance England. A collaboration between Broadview Press and the Internet Shakespeare Editions project at the University of Victoria, the editions developed for this series have been comprehensively annotated and draw on the authoritative texts newly edited for the ISE. This innovative series allows readers to access extensive and reliable online resources linked to the print edition.

Author : Kristin M.S. Bezio
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839106425
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Shakespeare and 21st-Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership written by Kristin M.S. Bezio and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Shakespeare and 21st-Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership examines problems, challenges, and crises in our contemporary world through the lens of William Shakespeare’s plays, one of the best-known, most admired, and often controversial authors of the last half-millennium.

Author : Paul Cefalu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472521927
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tragic Cognition in Shakespeare's Othello written by Paul Cefalu and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Cefalu argues that Shakespearean characters raise timely questions about the relationship between cognition and consciousness and often defy our assumptions about “normal” cognition. The book will appeal to scholars and students interested in both the virtues and limitations of cognitive literary criticism.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393270084
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Othello (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) written by William Shakespeare and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Norton Critical Edition includes:·The First Folio text (1623).· An introduction, explanatory footnotes, note on the text, and textual notes by Edward Pechter.· Fifteen illustrations.· Giraldi Cinthio's sixteenth-century story in its entirety, which Shakespeare used for both the plot and many details of Othello.· A generous selection of interpretive responses to Othello from its origins to the present day, including--new to the SecondEdition--those by Stanley Cavell and Lois Potter. Edward Pechter's popular theatrical and critical overview of Othello has been significantly expanded.· An updated Selected Bibliography.

Author : James R. Siemon
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 0838644805
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Studies written by James R. Siemon and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare Studies is an annual volume containing essays and studies by critics and cultural historians from around the world. This issue features a forum on the work of Terence Hawkes. In addition there are papers by five young scholars, five new articles, and reviews of ten books.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393623394
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Othello (Second International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) written by William Shakespeare and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I wanted an edition of Othello that had the necessary footnotes, background material, and a good selection of recent critical articles that would be accessible to students and would spark class discussions. This was it.” —Deborah Montuori, Shippensburg University This Norton Critical Edition includes: ·The First Folio text (1623). · An introduction, explanatory footnotes, note on the text, and textual notes by Edward Pechter. · Fifteen illustrations. · Giraldi Cinthio’s sixteenth-century story in its entirety, which Shakespeare used for both the plot and many details of Othello. · A generous selection of interpretive responses to Othello from its origins to the present day, including—new to the Second Edition—those by Stanley Cavell and Lois Potter. Edward Pechter’s popular theatrical and critical overview of Othello has been significantly expanded. · An updated Selected Bibliography.

Author : Joseph Rosenblum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3141 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Definitive Shakespeare Companion [4 volumes] written by Joseph Rosenblum and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 3141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expansive four-volume work gives students detailed explanations of Shakespeare's plays and poems and also covers his age, life, theater, texts, and language. Numerous excerpts from primary source historical documents contextualize his works, while reviews of productions chronicle his performance history and reception. Shakespeare's works often served to convey simple truths, but they are also complex, multilayered masterpieces. Shakespeare drew on varied sources to create his plays, and while the plays are sometimes set in worlds before the Elizabethan age, they nonetheless parallel and comment on situations in his own era. Written with the needs of students in mind, this four-volume set demystifies Shakespeare for today's readers and provides the necessary perspective and analysis students need to better appreciate the genius of his work. This indispensable ready reference examines Shakespeare's plots, language, and themes; his use of sources and exploration of issues important to his age; the interpretation of his works through productions from the Renaissance to the present; and the critical reaction to key questions concerning his writings. The book provides coverage of each key play and poems in discrete sections, with each section presenting summaries; discussions of themes, characters, language, and imagery; and clear explications of key passages. Readers will be able to inspect historical documents related to the topics explored in the work being discussed and view excerpts from Shakespeare's sources as well as reviews of major productions. The work also provides a comprehensive list of print and electronic resources suitable for student research.

Author : Laura Kolb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192603507
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare written by Laura Kolb and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shakespeare's England, credit was synonymous with reputation, and reputation developed in the interplay of language, conduct, and social interpretation. As a consequence, artful language and social hermeneutics became practical, profitable skills. Since most people both used credit and extended it, the dual strategies of implication and inference—of producing and reading evidence—were everywhere. Like poetry or drama, credit was constructed: fashioned out of the interplay of artifice and interpretation. The rhetorical dimension of economic relations produced social fictions on a range of scales: from transitory performances facilitating local transactions to the long-term project of maintaining creditworthiness to the generalized social indeterminacy that arose from the interplay of performance and interpretation. Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare examines how Shakespeare and his contemporaries represented credit-driven artifice and interpretation on the early modern stage. It also analyses a range of practical texts—including commercial arithmetics, letter-writing manuals, legal formularies, and tables of interest—which offered strategies for generating credit and managing debt. Looking at plays and practical texts together, Fictions of Credit argues that both types of writing constitute “equipment for living”: practical texts by offering concrete strategies for navigating England's culture of credit, and plays by exploring the limits of credit's dangers and possibilities. In their representations of a world re-written by debt relations, dramatic texts in particular articulate a phenomenology of economic life, telling us what it feels like to live in credit culture: to live, that is, inside a fiction.