The improbability of Othello : rhetorical anthropology and shakespearean selfhood / Joel B. Altman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Altman, Joel B.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello.

Shakespeare, William.

Probability in literature.

Self in literature.

Rhetoric, Renaissance.

Physical Description:

450 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Contents:

Prologue. 'As if for surety': the problematics of shakespearean probability

Toward a rhetorical genealogy of Othello

'My parts, my title, and my perfect soul': ingenuity, apodeixis, and the origins of rhetorical anthropology

'Against my estimation': ciceronian decorum, stoic constancy, and the production of ethos

The logic of Renaissance rhetoric

'Apt and true': speech, world, and thought in Shakespeare's humanist dialectic

'Yonder's foul murders done': place, predicament, and grammatical space on Cyprus

Willful words, Christian anxieties, and shakespearean dramaturgy

'Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus': will, habit, and the discourse of res

'Preposterous conclusions': eros, enargeia, and composition in Othello

'Prophetic fury': the language of theatrical potentiality and the economy of shakespearean reception

Tropings of the self in Shakespeare's scripts

'I am not what I am': Shakespeare's scripted subject

'Nobody. I myself': discovering what passes show

Performing the improbable other on Shakespeare's stage

'Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago': ligatures of self and stranger

'It is not words that shakes me thus': Burbage, as if Othello

Epilogue. 'Make not impossible/that which but seems unlike': the twilight of probability and the dawn of shakespearean romance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226016108

0226016102

OCLC:

317923035