The Masks of Othello: The Search for the Identity of Othello, Iago, and Desdemona by Three Centuries of Actors and Critics

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University of Delaware Press, 1992 - 313 Seiten
In what Norman Sanders has termed [a] now classic study, noted Shakespearean Marvin Rosenberg sets out to discover how the complex, troubled characters of the play have been interpreted by actors and critics from Shakespeare's time to the present.

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The Actors Share
5
Othello in the Restoration
16
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
29
The EighteenthCentury Actors
34
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
55
Kean
61
Macready Fechter Irving
70
Booth
80
The Modern Othello
145
The Modern Iago
155
OTHELLO AND THE CRITICS
161
In Defense of Iago
166
In Defense of Othello
185
In Defense of Desdemona
206
In Defense of the Play I
218
In Defense of the Play II
230

Forrest
89
Salvini
102
The Victorian Iago
120
The Victorian Desdemona
135
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
141
A KIND WORD FOR BOWDLER
244
NOTES
257
INDEX
303
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Seite 22 - The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Seite 38 - O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others
Seite 236 - Oth. I look down towards his feet; but that's a fable. If that thou be'st a devil, I cannot kill thee.
Seite 96 - Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
Seite 45 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange, 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful...
Seite 258 - So have I seen, when Caesar would appear, And on the stage at half-sword parley were, Brutus and Cassius, oh how the audience Were ravished! with what wonder they went thence. When some new day they would not brook a line Of tedious, though well laboured, Catiline; Sejanus too was irksome, they prized more Honest lago or the jealous Moor.
Seite 84 - Excellent wretch ! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee ! and when I love thee not Chaos is come again.
Seite 36 - The ordinary method of making an hero is to clap a huge plume of feathers upon his head, which rises so very high that there is often a greater length from his chin to the top of his head than to the sole of his foot.
Seite 46 - A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at ! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live, or bear no life...

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