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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"desdemona"”.
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Living Words; Dying Flesh: The Truth and Testimonies of Desdemona in Othello and Pompilia in The Ring and the Book
<p>This thesis explores the ways in which Desdemona in William Shakespeare’s Othello (1603/4) and Pompilia in Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book (1868) exemplify female characters whose testimonies highlight their souls’ salvation and demonstrate that they ultimately transcend their domestic …
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Re-visionary bodies: Feminist/Brechtian theory in the plays of Paula Vogel
… And Baby Makes Seven, Hot 'N' Throbbing , and Desdemona: a play about a handkerchief to re-vision constructions of gender, sexuality and feminine desire, to re-define the American theatrical canon, and to create her own gestic, feminist theater. In The Baltimore Waltz, Vogel re-visions the AIDS …
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Courtship, Loe, and Marriage in Othello: Shakespeare's Mockery of Courtly Love
… but as the play progresses, the embarrassment of Desdemona's presumed infidelity begins to unravel his ideas of love. Instead of following the courtly conventions of dealing with adultery, Othello transforms into the Renaissance ideal Petrarchan lover, one who seeks spiritual love over physical …
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Arresting figures: Reading and theorizing Renaissance texts
… malice as the answer to Othello's treatment of Desdemona, this chapter treats Othello's selfhood as an object of inquiry and analyzes the tension between his selfhood and Desdemona's sexuality. The last chapter opens with a critique of Stanley Fish's theory about the reading experience of Samson …
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How Othello became black: a cultural history of Shakespeare's Moor in New York City
… William Shakespeare’s black Othello and white Desdemona has held a particular hold on the American imagination for two-hundred and fifty years. During its history on the New York stage, Shakespeare’s Othello has been a battleground for race relations and identities, which continue to be fought …
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Listen to the River: Dolores, Ophelia, and Female Resistance in Opera
… three operas with prominent female characters (Desdemona, Sieglinde/Brünnhilde, Mélisande) that were as well influential to the development of my opera. The central claim that the music of female characters resists being cast aside in opera plots was born out of the process of creating the …
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Speech Behavior in Othello: The Conversations of Roderigo and Iago
… a lesser tragic figure who also loves the fair Desdemona. In addition, the analysis exposes Iago's methods of manipulation: he exploits the politeness strategies to gain and maintain control. Thus, Othello's fall becomes more believable, and Roderigo's role gains in importance as it helps inform …
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"Th' offense pardons itself": Sex and the Church in <em>Othello</em> and <em>Measure for Measure</em>
… unfounded sexual jealousy leads to the death of Desdemona, Emilia, and himself. In Measure for Measure, Angelo's unbending literal interpretation of law threatens the life of Claudio, and his newly awakened lust threatens the virtue of Isabella. Both Othello and Angelo, through their …
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A study of the principle of poetic justice in the tragedies of the age of Elizabeth exclusive of Shakespeare
… is no longer condemned for having brought Desdemona to an unhappy death. The moder, especially, has turned from the old accepted idea of “whatsoever a man soweth, that shall also be reap”, and has taken a particular pleasure in turning it upside down. How we see that there is no planned …
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Macrobenthic community and ecotoxicological status of the Nhlabane Estuary
… and the polychaetes Ceratonereis keiskamma, Desdemona ornata and Prionospio sexoculata and the tanaid Apseudes digitalis. Multivariate analysis showed a marked temporal change in the benthic community, reflected in significant changes in the number of taxa, density, species richness and …