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The improbability of Othello rhetorical anthropology and Shakespearean selfhood

Title: The improbability of Othello [electronic resource] : rhetorical anthropology and Shakespearean selfhood / Joel B. Altman.
Author: Altman, Joel B.
Publication: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c2010.

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1 online resource (450 p.)

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Improbability of Othello (Online)

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Improbability of Othello (Online)

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-442) and index.

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Contents

Prologue. 'As if for surety': the problematics of shakespearean probability -- Toward a rhetorical genealogy of Othello -- 'My parts, my title, and my perfect soul': ingenuity, apodeixis, and the origins -- Of rhetorical anthropology -- 'Against my estimation': ciceronian decorum, stoic constancy, and the production of ethos -- The logic of renaissance rhetoric -- 'Apt and true': speech, world, and thought in Shakespeare's humanist dialectic -- 'Yonder's fair murders done': place, predicament, and grammatical space on Cyprus -- Willful words, christian anxieties, and shakespearean dramaturgy -- 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus': will, habit, and the discourse of res -- 'Preposterous conclusions': eros, enargeia, and composition in Othello -- 'Prophetic fury': the language of theatrical potentiality and the economy of shakespearean reception -- Tropings of the self in Shakespeare's scripts -- 'I am not what I am': Shakespeare's scripted subject -- 'Nobody. I myself': discovering what passes show -- Performing the improbable other on Shakespeare's stage -- 'Were I the moor, I would not be Iago': ligatures of self and stranger -- 'It is not words that shakes me thus': Burbage, as if Othello -- Epilogue. 'Make not impossible/that which but seems unlike': the twilight of probability and the dawn of shakespearean romance.

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