Fury in the Words Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice

Name: Fury in the Words Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice
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ISBN: 9780823241958

ISBN-10: 0823241955

ISBN-13: 9780823241958

Edition: 2012

Authors: Harry Berger

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Shakespeare's two Venetian plays are dominated by the discourse of embarrassment.The Merchant of Veniceis a comedy of embarrassment, andOthellois a tragedy of embarrassment. This nomenclature is admittedly anachronistic, because the term "embarrassment" didn't enter the language until the late seventeenth century.To embarrass is to make someone feel awkward or uncomfortable, humiliated or ashamed. Such feelings may respond to specific acts of criticism, blame, or accusation. "To embarrass" is literally to "embar": to put up a barrier or deny access. The bar of embarrassment may be raised by unpleasant experiences. It may also be raised when people are denied access to things, persons, and…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 11/14/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue: Language as Gesture



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



Desdemona on Cyprus: Act 2 Scene 1



The Proclamation Scenes: Act 2 Scenes 2 and 3



Dark Triangles in 3.3



Desdemona's Greedy Ear



Impertinent Trifling: Desdemona's Handkerchief



On the Emilian Trail



Iago's Soliloquies



Othello's Infidelity



The Fury in Their Words