A fury in the words : love and embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice

A fury in the words : love and embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice / Harry Berger, Jr.

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berger, Harry, Jr., 1924-2021 (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Literature collection.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > Merchant of Venice.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > Othello.
Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare, William)
Othello (Shakespeare, William)
Embarrassment in literature.
Love in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Embarrassment in literature
Love in literature
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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