A Fury in the Words : : Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice /

A Fury in the Words : : Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice / / Harry Berger.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Berger, Harry,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2013
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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