| «To Be Once in Doubt»: Certainty and the Marriage of Minds in Othello Contributor(s): Danny L Smith (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820408824 ISBN-13: 9780820408828 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $45.55 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 1989 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Drama | Shakespeare |
| Dewey: 822.33 |
| LCCN: 88025554 |
| Series: American University Studies |
| Physical Information: 199 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Viewing "Othello" as "the" drama of epistemology and human certainty, this work analyzes Desdemona, Othello, and Iago as distinct but similar portraits wherein self-esteem and the existential self-image wax or wane with extremes of belief and disbelief in the possibility of the marriage of minds. The author's thematic and generic comparisons of "Othello" to "The Tempest, A" "Winter's Tale, " and especially to Sonnet 116 and "Cymbeline" illustrate that knowledgeable certainty lies in both the skepticism and the humility of the Christian thinker who does not deny human potential for the sake of the image. |