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Othello as tragedy : some problems of judgment and feeling

Title: Othello as tragedy : some problems of judgment and feeling / Jane Adamson.
Author: Adamson, Jane.
Publication: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1980.

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Description

ix, 300 pages; 23 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

Genre/Form

tragedies.
Tragedies (Drama)
Tragédies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN

0521223687
0521297605
9780521223683
9780521297608

LCCN

79041437

OCLC

ocm05832043
5832043
SCSB-14693921

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library