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Magic in the Web : Action and Language in Othello / Robert B. Heilman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heilman, Robert Bechtold, 1906-2004.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tragedy.
- Othello (Fictitious character from Shakespeare).
- Othello.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : University of Kentucky Press, 1956.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In his earlier work on King Lear, Mr. Heilman combined a number of critical procedures to form a new and important approach to Shakespearian criticism. His study of Othello displays the maturity of insight and skill in analysis the years have brought him in developing his critical method. Mr. Heilman takes account of stage effects; he traces out literal and symbolic meanings; he analyzes plot relationships; he examines characters in terms of both their psychological and their moral situations, and style in relation to both character and meaning. He traces some effects due to historical meanings which have now been lost by certain words, and he tries to measure the impact of the drama upon, and its significance for, the modern consciousness.
- Contents:
- Approach
- Assumptions
- Interconnections
- Iago: beyond the grievances
- The Iago world: styles in deception
- Honest Iago
- Seeming and seeing: ocular proof
- Light and darkness
- Iago as economist
- Dr. Iago and his potions
- The Iago world: styles in revelation
- Reduction and conquest
- The hunter, the inhuman dog, and the slave
- The greatest discords
- Chaos: the war at home
- Othello: action and language
- Thematic form: versions of love
- Styles of action
- Doctrine and symbol
- Thematic form: wit and witchcraft
- Appendix a: the enchafed flood
- Appendix b: the body
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Reprint of the ed. published by University of Kentucky Press, Lexington.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813181950
- 081318195X
- 9780813163048
- 0813163048
- OCLC:
- 933516090
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