{"product_id":"othello-as-tragedy-some-problems-of-judgement-and-feeling-paperback-9780521297608","title":"Othello As Tragedy; Some Problems of Judgement and Feeling (Paperback) 9780521297608","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOthello As Tragedy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSome Problems of Judgement and Feeling\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJane Adamson analyses Othello and assesses the title character's complex tragedy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJane Adamson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521297608, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 30 October 1980\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.7 x 13.8 x 1.9 cm, 0.415 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eCritical views of Othello have polarized during the last forty years. The dispute is between those who follow Coleridge and Bradley and see Othello as noble but diabolically misled, and those who follow Eliot and Leavis and see him as a criminal egotist. Jane Adamson argues that both views are too simple and that both deprive the play of tragic point. She is concerned to reinstate the play as a great tragedy, and Othello as a complex tragic figure. She considers in detail how the drama unfolds; how Othello's predicament provides a focus for moral questions raised in all the other characters; how the reader or spectator becomes painfully involved with similar questions in trying to understand the action; and how in these ways the play continually undercuts easy moral simplifications. During this study a great deal else in Shakespeare is illuminated - especially his insight into the need for love, and the dangers that are inseparable from that need.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The 'comforts' of praise and blame\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'Injuries' and 'remedies': the first two acts\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Pluming up the will': Iago's place in the play\u003cbr\u003e 4. Personal and professional identity: Othello in the first two acts\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'Alacrity in hardness': Othello's crisis in Acts III and IV\u003cbr\u003e 6. The 'hollow hell' of vengeance: Othello's attempted remedies\u003cbr\u003e 7. Self-charity and self-abnegation: the play's women in love\u003cbr\u003e 8. The 'power to hurt' and 'be hurt', 'past all surgery': the final scene.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Shakespeare studies \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Shakespeare studies \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Shakespeare%20studies%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDSGS%5D%22\"\u003eDSGS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003380748568,"sku":"9780521297608","price":38.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521297608i_2e32ecfe-35ab-4e70-aab1-cb782333b446.jpg?v=1691374904","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/othello-as-tragedy-some-problems-of-judgement-and-feeling-paperback-9780521297608","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}