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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (3): 273–275.
Published: 01 September 1962
..., Iago, ad Desdemona by ‘Ihree Centuries of Actors and Critics. By MARVIN ROSEN- BERG. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1961. Pp. xii -I- 313. $5.00. 274 Reviews This account of the productions and interpretations of Ofhello...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (3): 207–223.
Published: 01 September 1987
... that Othello and Leontes identify with and have admired their counterparts. This identification is not accidental. Edward A. Snow has strongly made the point that “Iago’s plan is to get Othello to imagine Cassio in his (Othello’s) place And he notes that the plan “is abetted by the language...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (4): 475–479.
Published: 01 December 1940
...Helen Andrews Kahin Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 A NOTE ON OTHELLO, 11, i, 110-113 By HELENANDREWS KAHIN Steevens,’ long ago, called attention to the similarity between Iago’s speech : Come on, come on ;you are pictures out...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (3): 381–382.
Published: 01 September 1947
... ; the reviewer humbly demurs. The remaining contributions are critical. John Robert Moore writes on the character of Iago and decides that the ubiquitous en- sign is pretty much of a “gold-bricker.” The critic is certainly justi- fied in taking issue with those who tend to glorify Iago, but one may...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (3): 382–383.
Published: 01 September 1947
... contributions are critical. John Robert Moore writes on the character of Iago and decides that the ubiquitous en- sign is pretty much of a “gold-bricker.” The critic is certainly justi- fied in taking issue with those who tend to glorify Iago, but one may suggest that the question raised by the play...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (1): 100–101.
Published: 01 March 1961
... Casmurro, the protagonist and narrator, Bento Sant- iago-a recluse living in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro-describes his tale as that of Othello. But for Santiago there is an important difference: his Des- demona (Capitli) was guilty, and so skillfully does he plead his case that for nearly...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (1): 101–102.
Published: 01 March 1961
... admired. The Othello story, for example, appears in twenty-eight of his tales, plays, and articles. In Dom Casmurro, the protagonist and narrator, Bento Sant- iago-a recluse living in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro-describes his tale as that of Othello. But for Santiago there is an important...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (3): 267–268.
Published: 01 September 1957
... of a perceptive critic who has read the play carefully for himself, as in the remark on Iago’s final refusal to speak: “So the man who opened the play with a torrent of words, who reveled in loudness, and who was always voluble, shuts himself up in absolute silence: the demonic closure is the logical...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (1): 27–37.
Published: 01 March 1978
...- gous to the type described in Sonnet 94: Rosencrantz and Guilden- stern, Iago, and Northumberland (pp. 106-107). Others who have taken up this argument have included Angelo and Octavius. All of these figures, but especially the fair friend, illustrate what Hubler calls “the prudence...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (3): 266–267.
Published: 01 September 1957
... Press, 1956. Pp. 298. $5.00. The author prefaces his book with the modest statement: “This is one man’s reading of Othello.” The best passages are those which express the personal insight of a perceptive critic who has read the play carefully for himself, as in the remark on Iago’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 1997
... delivered as a feigned aside, occurs in Othello. Iago and Othello observe Cassio as he takes leave of Desdemona. Trying to give the impression that he does not intend Othello to hear his remark, Iago-in a voice muted but loud enough that Othello can, in fact, overhear-says, “Hah? I like...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (2): 115–134.
Published: 01 June 1979
... emblematic contrasts between self- proclaimedly demonic figures (Iago, Edmund, Claudius, Lady Mac- beth) and selfless representatives of goodness (Desdemona, Cordelia, Edgar, Ophelia, Malcolm, Duncan). At the center of the tempest he depicts a meditative protagonist who binds attention with his...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1990) 51 (1): 5–24.
Published: 01 March 1990
... Hippolytus’s abstinence and Phaedra’s obsession is a de facto conclusion of the Hippolytus. But restoration is brought about in another way, thr‘ough the purging of a recognizable evil itself. Sometimes the evil is epito- mized by a person, such as Iago, Goneril or the usurping hus- band...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (4): 375–412.
Published: 01 December 1953
... of life” (the “disease a mental and spiritual death “an uninspired, devitalized intellect”; in conduct likened, moreover, to his Iago (less devilish on the whole) “torturing Claudius, as the Ancient does the Moor.” Nor any claim to his Cleopatra, her death “an imaginative parallel...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (4): 425–437.
Published: 01 December 1950
...-system” of acting. On the other hand, the role of Iago, in which he appeared on May 7, 1814, after an unsuccessful at- tempt in the role of Othello on May 5, was perfectly suited to his talents. Hazlitt, in his review for the Morning Chronicle of May 9,1O singles out the essential qualities...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (1): 125–126.
Published: 01 March 1947
... the adequacy of a single method of interpretation and from neglect of other critics’ discussions of Elizabethan psychology. So complex and puzzling a character as Iago, for instance, needs something more than humors, real or assumed, to explain his actions. A view that sees in him simply...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (2): 183–184.
Published: 01 June 1954
... will cool off and harden before it has gone far enough: thus the correct diagnosis of Edmund as a rationalist cuts off an adequate estimate of the imaginative element paradoxically present in him, and the accurate presentation of Iago as a calculating manipulator prevents due appraisal...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (2): 184–185.
Published: 01 June 1954
... as a rationalist cuts off an adequate estimate of the imaginative element paradoxically present in him, and the accurate presentation of Iago as a calculating manipulator prevents due appraisal of the imagistic and revelatory aspects of his soliloquies. Dr. Clemen’s arguments from cause are at times...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (3): 272–273.
Published: 01 September 1962
... CHITTICK 7he Masks of Othello: ’Ihe Search for the Identity of Othello, Iago, ad Desdemona by ‘Ihree Centuries of Actors and Critics. By MARVIN ROSEN- BERG. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1961. Pp. xii -I- 313. $5.00. ...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (3): 268–269.
Published: 01 September 1957
... eminence in The Dlcncbd-a misreading which (for two centuries) editors tried vainly to make sense of even when they could not fit it into the rhythm of the line. Why, when Shakespeare has kept Iago to so low a scale, from the distrust of the doltish Roderigo at the beginning to the contempt...