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A fury in the words : love and embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice /
"Shakespeare's two Venetian plays are dominated by the discourse of embarrassment. The Merchant of Venice is a comedy of embarrassment, and Othello is a tragedy of embarrassment. This nomenclature is admittedly anachronistic, because the term "embarrassment" didn't enter the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Literature collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Mercifixion in The merchant of Venice: the riches of embarrassment
- Introduction
- Negotiating the bond
- Antonio's blues
- Curiositas: the two Sallies
- Negative usury and the arts of embarrassment
- Negative usury: Portia's ring trick
- Portia the embarrasser
- The archery of embarrassment
- The first Jason
- A note on verse and prose in Act 1
- Another Jason
- Portia cheating
- Portia's hair
- The siege of Belmont
- Covinous casketeers
- Moonlit maundering
- Coigns of vantage
- Standing for judgment
- Standing for sacrifice
- "Here is the money": Bassanio in the bond market
- Twilight in Belmont: Portia's ring cycle
- Death in Venice
- Three's company: contaminated intimacy in Othello. Prehistory in Othello
- Othello's embarrassment in 1.2 and 1.3
- The proclamation scenes: Act 2 scenes 2 and 3
- Desdemona on Cyprus: Act 2 scene 1
- Dark triangles in 3.3
- Desdemona's greedy ear
- Impertinent trifling: Desdemona's handkerchief
- The Emilian trail
- Iago's soliloquies
- Othello's endgame
- The fury in her words.