Othello Play Flashcards
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Tragedy
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- Series actions causing disastrous conclusions for the protag.
- cathartic experience (pity and fear)
- Many tragic representations of suffering leave audience relieve/ exalted, vs depressed
- tragic hero not good or bad, but both
2
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Tragedy and Ideology
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- drama on English stage (public performances)
- think about producing a social space, which were ideological and political
3
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Idealogy
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- body of ideas that control how members of a society view the world
- can co exist with other ones
4
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Tragedy (Common use vs Dramatic Text)
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- Common Use
Used for all sorts of human/ natural catastrophe
-Dramatic texts - protagonists choices
- violation of order (personal, psychological, public, political, divine)
5
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Ventian courtesans
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-Venetian commercial sex trade
- run by older women
-expensive clothing, layers of jewelry
6
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Early Modern Venice
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- important trade and travel
- contract between east and west
- racially/ religiously mixed
7
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Moor (Othello)
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- First Moor as tragic hero in Western Drama
- outsider by birth and race
- play unfolds in few day
8
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Barbantio
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- accuses othello of seducing his daughter with witchcraft
- doesnt understnad Desdemona’s transformation
- desdemona is his property
9
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Iago
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- ironic epithet
- “honest”
- Coleridge’s “motiveless malignancy”
- Speaks 1/3 more lines than Othello
10
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Handkerchief
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- Othello’s ocular proof
- Aothello gave it to Desdemona
- Cassio gives it to Bianca
11
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Shakespeare Sources
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- Gil Hecatommithi (Cinthio)
- Collection of short Italian stories about pros and cons of love/ marriage
- popular collection…
