Shakespeare’s Invention of Othello : A Study in Early Modern English

Did Shakespeare succeed in his characterisation of Othello? Or is the noble but degraded Moor psychologically implausible? This book enters an old controversy in a new way. Martin Elliott takes fully into account the fact that Shakespeare was writing in Early Modern English and explores word-meanings and syntax and finds an extended consistency. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii ‘But to be free, and bounteous to her minde’....Pages 1-53 ‘But that I loue the gentle Desdemona’....Pages 54-74 ‘Who can controll his Fate?’....Pages 75-106 ‘I must be found’ (i)....Pages 107-138 ‘I must be found’ (ii)....Pages 139-185 ‘I must be found’ (iii)....Pages 186-236 Back Matter....Pages 239-284