Shame in Othello

Cambridge Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-45

  Fernie, Ewan ^a  

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DOI: 10.1093/camqtly/28.1.19     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Kenneth Muir says 'popularly Othello is a tragedy of jealousy', and 'any view that runs counter to the average spectator must necessarily be suspect' ('The Jealousy of Iago', English Miscellany, 2 (1951) 66), but this popular view stems not so much from experience as from tradition.
2. Harold Bloom, Ruin the Sacred Truths (Cambridge, Mass. 1989) p. 66.
3. Jonathan Bate notices this imagery and its Ovidian provenance in Shakespeare and Ovid (Oxford 1993) pp. 181-4. Divine man can be found, for instance, in the writings of Ficino and Paracelsus;
4. Ficino writes in his commentary on Plato's Symposium, 'it is clear that in loving God we have loved ourselves' (in Renaissance Views of Man, ed. Stevie Davies, Literature in Context (Manchester 1978) p. 56).
5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Marginalia on Othello', in Shakespeare, Othello: A Casebook, ed. John Wain (London 1971) p. 53.
6. A. D. Nuttall, A New Mimesis (London 1983) p. 142.
7. Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning (Chicago 1980) pp. 232-52.
8. A. C. Bradley attests to a gap between Iago's passionate motives and what he judges to be the coldness with which he expresses them: Shakespearean Tragedy (1905), 2nd edn. (London 1970) p. 183.
9. Though he still finds him unconvincing here, Bradley gets it right when he writes of Iago's 'thwarted sense of superiority': Shakespearean Tragedy, p. 187.
10. William Empson quotes Bradley approvingly in The Structure of Complex Words (London 1951) p. 232.
11. Nevill Coghill also takes Iago at his word here: see Shakespeare's Professional Skills (Cambridge 1964) p. 146.
12. Juan Luis Vives, The Passions of the Soul, the third book of De anima et vita, trans. Carlos G. Noreña (Lewiston, NY 1990) p. 112.
13. Maud Bodkin, Archetypal Patterns in Poetry (London 1934) p. 221.
14. H. A. Mason, Shakespeare's Tragedies of Love (London 1970) p. 94.
15. Arthur Kirsch, The Passions of Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes (Charlottesville, Va. 1990) p. 63.
16. The Arden Richard II, ed. Peter Ure (London 1976) I. i. 176.
17. The Arden Romeo and Juliet, ed. Brian Gibbons (London 1980) III. ii. 91-4.
18. The Arden Love's Labour's Lost, ed. Richard David (London 1968) V. iii. 508.
19. Colin Manlove, The Gap in Shakespeare (London 1981) p. 70.
20. René Girard recognises this in A Theater of Envy (Oxford 1991) p. 292.
21. Sophocles, Ajax 126-8, in Electra and Other Plays, trans. E. F. Watling (London 1967) p. 22.
22. See also Girard, Theater of Envy, p. 292.
23. F. R. Leavis, 'Diabolic Intellect and the Noble Hero', in The Common Pursuit (London 1978) pp. 140-1.
24. The Arden Antony and Cleopatra, ed. M. R. Ridley (London 1954) III. xi. 44.
25. T. McAlindon, Shakespeare's Tragic Cosmos (Cambridge 1996) p. 140.
26. T. S. Eliot, 'Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca', in Selected Essays (London 1951) pp. 126-40.