| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 229 p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Mercifixion in The merchant of Venice: the riches of embarrassment -- Introduction -- Negotiating the bond -- Antonio's blues -- Curiositas: the two Sallies -- Negative usury and the arts of embarrassment -- Negative usury: Portia's ring trick -- Portia the embarrasser -- The archery of embarrassment -- The first Jason -- A note on verse and prose in Act 1 -- Another Jason -- Portia cheating -- Portia's hair -- The siege of Belmont -- Covinous casketeers -- Moonlit maundering -- Coigns of vantage -- Standing for judgment -- Standing for sacrifice -- "Here is the money": Bassanio in the bond market -- Twilight in Belmont: Portia's ring cycle -- Death in Venice -- Three's company: contaminated intimacy in Othello. Prehistory in Othello -- Othello's embarrassment in 1.2 and 1.3 -- The proclamation scenes: Act 2 scenes 2 and 3 -- Desdemona on Cyprus: Act 2 scene 1 -- Dark triangles in 3.3 -- Desdemona's greedy ear -- Impertinent trifling: Desdemona's handkerchief -- The Emilian trail -- Iago's soliloquies -- Othello's endgame -- The fury in her words. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merchant of Venice.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello.
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Embarrassment in literature.
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Love in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780823241941 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780823241958 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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