A Fury in the Words : : Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice / / Harry Berger.
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 s...
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Berger, Harry, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Fury in the Words : Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice / Harry Berger. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022] ©2013 1 online resource (240 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Language as Gesture -- Part One. Mercifixion in The Merchant of Venice: The Riches of Embarrassment -- Introduction -- 1. Negotiating the Bond -- 2. Antonio’s Blues -- 3. Curiositas: The Two Sallies -- 4. Negative Usury and the Arts of Embarrassment -- 5. Negative Usury: Portia’s Ring Trick -- 6. Portia the Embarrasser -- 7. The Archery of Embarrassment -- 8. The First Jason -- 9. A Note on Verse and Prose in Act I -- 10. Another Jason -- 11. Portia Cheating -- 12. Portia’s Hair -- 13. The Siege of Belmont 13. The Siege of Belmont -- 14. Covinous Casketeers -- 15. Moonlit Maundering -- 16. Coigns of Vantage -- 17. Standing for Judgment -- 18. Standing for Sacrifice -- 19. “Here is the money”: Bassanio in the Bond Market -- 20. Twilight in Belmont: Portia’s Ring Cycle -- 21. Death in Venice -- Part Two. Three’s Company: Contaminated Intimacy in Othello -- 22. Prehistory in Othello -- 23. Othello’s Embarrassment in 1.2 and 1.3 -- 24. Desdemona on Cyprus: Act 2 Scene 1 -- 25. The Proclamation Scenes: Act 2 Scenes 2 and 3 -- 26. Dark Triangles in 3.3 -- 27. Desdemona’s Greedy Ear -- 28. Impertinent Trifling: Desdemona’s Handkerchief -- 29. On the Emilian Trail -- 30. Iago’s Soliloquies -- 31. Othello’s Infidelity -- 32. The Fury in Their Words restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 9783111189604 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110707298 print 9780823241958 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823290765 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823290765 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823290765/original |
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Berger, Harry, Berger, Harry, A Fury in the Words : Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Language as Gesture -- Part One. Mercifixion in The Merchant of Venice: The Riches of Embarrassment -- Introduction -- 1. Negotiating the Bond -- 2. Antonio’s Blues -- 3. Curiositas: The Two Sallies -- 4. Negative Usury and the Arts of Embarrassment -- 5. Negative Usury: Portia’s Ring Trick -- 6. Portia the Embarrasser -- 7. The Archery of Embarrassment -- 8. The First Jason -- 9. A Note on Verse and Prose in Act I -- 10. Another Jason -- 11. Portia Cheating -- 12. Portia’s Hair -- 13. The Siege of Belmont 13. The Siege of Belmont -- 14. Covinous Casketeers -- 15. Moonlit Maundering -- 16. Coigns of Vantage -- 17. Standing for Judgment -- 18. Standing for Sacrifice -- 19. “Here is the money”: Bassanio in the Bond Market -- 20. Twilight in Belmont: Portia’s Ring Cycle -- 21. Death in Venice -- Part Two. Three’s Company: Contaminated Intimacy in Othello -- 22. Prehistory in Othello -- 23. Othello’s Embarrassment in 1.2 and 1.3 -- 24. Desdemona on Cyprus: Act 2 Scene 1 -- 25. The Proclamation Scenes: Act 2 Scenes 2 and 3 -- 26. Dark Triangles in 3.3 -- 27. Desdemona’s Greedy Ear -- 28. Impertinent Trifling: Desdemona’s Handkerchief -- 29. On the Emilian Trail -- 30. Iago’s Soliloquies -- 31. Othello’s Infidelity -- 32. The Fury in Their Words |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Language as Gesture -- Part One. Mercifixion in The Merchant of Venice: The Riches of Embarrassment -- Introduction -- 1. Negotiating the Bond -- 2. Antonio’s Blues -- 3. Curiositas: The Two Sallies -- 4. Negative Usury and the Arts of Embarrassment -- 5. Negative Usury: Portia’s Ring Trick -- 6. Portia the Embarrasser -- 7. The Archery of Embarrassment -- 8. The First Jason -- 9. A Note on Verse and Prose in Act I -- 10. Another Jason -- 11. Portia Cheating -- 12. Portia’s Hair -- 13. The Siege of Belmont 13. The Siege of Belmont -- 14. Covinous Casketeers -- 15. Moonlit Maundering -- 16. Coigns of Vantage -- 17. Standing for Judgment -- 18. Standing for Sacrifice -- 19. “Here is the money”: Bassanio in the Bond Market -- 20. Twilight in Belmont: Portia’s Ring Cycle -- 21. Death in Venice -- Part Two. Three’s Company: Contaminated Intimacy in Othello -- 22. Prehistory in Othello -- 23. Othello’s Embarrassment in 1.2 and 1.3 -- 24. Desdemona on Cyprus: Act 2 Scene 1 -- 25. The Proclamation Scenes: Act 2 Scenes 2 and 3 -- 26. Dark Triangles in 3.3 -- 27. Desdemona’s Greedy Ear -- 28. Impertinent Trifling: Desdemona’s Handkerchief -- 29. On the Emilian Trail -- 30. Iago’s Soliloquies -- 31. Othello’s Infidelity -- 32. The Fury in Their Words |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Language as Gesture -- Part One. Mercifixion in The Merchant of Venice: The Riches of Embarrassment -- Introduction -- 1. Negotiating the Bond -- 2. Antonio’s Blues -- 3. Curiositas: The Two Sallies -- 4. Negative Usury and the Arts of Embarrassment -- 5. Negative Usury: Portia’s Ring Trick -- 6. Portia the Embarrasser -- 7. The Archery of Embarrassment -- 8. The First Jason -- 9. A Note on Verse and Prose in Act I -- 10. Another Jason -- 11. Portia Cheating -- 12. Portia’s Hair -- 13. The Siege of Belmont 13. The Siege of Belmont -- 14. Covinous Casketeers -- 15. Moonlit Maundering -- 16. Coigns of Vantage -- 17. Standing for Judgment -- 18. Standing for Sacrifice -- 19. “Here is the money”: Bassanio in the Bond Market -- 20. Twilight in Belmont: Portia’s Ring Cycle -- 21. Death in Venice -- Part Two. Three’s Company: Contaminated Intimacy in Othello -- 22. Prehistory in Othello -- 23. Othello’s Embarrassment in 1.2 and 1.3 -- 24. Desdemona on Cyprus: Act 2 Scene 1 -- 25. The Proclamation Scenes: Act 2 Scenes 2 and 3 -- 26. Dark Triangles in 3.3 -- 27. Desdemona’s Greedy Ear -- 28. Impertinent Trifling: Desdemona’s Handkerchief -- 29. On the Emilian Trail -- 30. Iago’s Soliloquies -- 31. Othello’s Infidelity -- 32. The Fury in Their Words |
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