The improbability of Othello
Subtitle: rhetorical anthropology and shakespearean selfhood
By: Joel B. Altman
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780226016108
Description: 'The Improbability of Othello' contributes fresh ideas to our understanding of Shakespeare's conception of the self, his shaping of audience response, and the relationship of actors to his texts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-442) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue. 'As if for surety': the problematics of shakespearean probability; title: Toward a rhetorical genealogy of Othello; title: 'My parts, my title, and my perfect soul': ingenuity, apodeixis, and the origins; title: Of rhetorical anthropology; title: 'Against my estimation': ciceronian decorum, stoic constancy, and the production of ethos; title: The logic of renaissance rhetoric; title: 'Apt and true': speech, world, and thought in Shakespeare's humanist dialectic; title: 'Yonder's fair murders done': place, predicament, and grammatical space on Cyprus; title: Willful words, christian anxieties, and shakespearean dramaturgy; title: 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus': will, habit, and the discourse of res; title: 'Preposterous conclusions': eros, enargeia, and composition in Othello; title: 'Prophetic fury': the language of theatrical potentiality and the economy of shakespearean reception; title: Tropings of the self in Shakespeare's scripts; title: 'I am not what I am': Shakespeare's scripted subject; title: 'Nobody. I myself': discovering what passes show; title: Performing the improbable other on Shakespeare's stage; title: 'Were I the moor, I would not be Iago': ligatures of self and stranger; title: 'It is not words that shakes me thus': Burbage, as if Othello; title: Epilogue. 'Make not impossible/that which but seems unlike': the twilight of probability and the dawn of shakespearean romance.