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A Fury in the Words: Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice

Autor Roger Berger
en Limba Engleză Paperback – noi 2012
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 language until the late seventeenth century. To embarrass is to make someone feel awkward or uncomfortable, humiliated or ashamed. Such feelings may respond to specific acts of criticism, blame, or accusation. "To embarrass" is literally to "embar": to put up a barrier or deny access. The bar of embarrassment may be raised by unpleasant experiences. It may also be raised when people are denied access to things, persons, and states of being they desire or to which they feel entitled. The Venetian plays represent embarrassment not merely as a condition but as a weapon and as the wound the weapon inflicts. Characters in The Merchant of Venice and Othello devote their energies to embarrassing one another. But even when the weapon is sheathed, it makes its presence felt, as when Desdemona means to praise Othello and express her love for him: "I saw Othello's visage in his mind" (1.3.253). This suggests, among other things, that she didn't see it in his face.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780823241958
ISBN-10: 0823241955
Pagini: 229
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Fordham University Press

Recenzii

"A Fury in the Words shows Berger’s sophisticated conceptual framework and intensive close readings in their most lucid, accessible, and human form. Berger’s analysis takes us slowly, step by step, deep into the inner logic of the characters’ language and helps us to make rigorous sense of the psychological motivation their words imply.” Peter Erickson, Williams College"The energy, penetration, and inventiveness of Berger’s thought in this book are astonishing. Embarrasment has rarely seemed so dangerous a thing. By myriad directions and indirections he leads the reader back into the surprise and the strangeness of the Venetian plays, and of Shakespeare’s mind at large. A masterwork.” Kenneth Gross, author of Shylock Is Shakespeare and Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life

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Discusses embarrassment not merely as a condition but as a weapon and as the wound the weapon inflicts