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A Fury in the Words: Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice
A Fury in the Words Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice
Author: Harry Berger
Shakespeare's two Venetian plays are dominated by the discourse of embarrassment. The Merchant of Venice is a comedy of embarrassment, and Othello is 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 so...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780823241958
ISBN-10: 0823241955
Publication Date: 11/14/2012
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Fordham University Press
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