1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996385270503316

Autore

Du Perron Jacques Davy <1556-1618.>

Titolo

The copy of a letter sent from the Cardinall du Perron embassadour for the French king at Rome [[electronic resource] ] : concerning the divisions of the papists of England their difference in government whether by bishops or Jesuites with the care of His Holinesse in the agreement, and his judgement in placing of bishops in England for making priests to increase the Catholic number : whereunto is added a certaine conjecture of the use both prelates and papists have made of the cardinals counsell to augment and establish their greatnesse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London?, : s.n.], 1641

Descrizione fisica

[2], 6 p

Soggetti

Great Britain Religion 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of part of a letter of 7 September 1605, extracted from the author's Ambassades et negotiations.

Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0158



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789111703321

Autore

Maguire Laurie E.

Titolo

Othello : language and writing / / Laurie Maguire

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Bloomsbury, , 2020

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020

ISBN

1-4081-7067-1

1-4725-1830-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Collana

Arden student skills, language and writing

Disciplina

822.33

Soggetti

Shakespeare plays

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and filmography.

Nota di contenuto

FC; Half title; Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Series editor's preface; Preface; Introduction; Narrating Othello; Name and identity; The handkerchief; Women; Location, location, location; Acting Othello; Acting Desdemona; Publishing Othello; 1 Language and narrative; Story-telling; Contradiction; Believing stories; 'I say' and 'yet'; Undoing narrative; Audiences and gaps; Euphemism and Roderigo; Proverbs; Separate languages; Reception; Speak 'parrot; Speaking 'stoutly'; Audience; Words and deeds; Words and things; Narrating the hero.

Postmortem meaningLanguage and comedy; Writing matters; 2 Language and genre; Generic fluidity; Juxtaposing genres; Props; Othello and Ben Jonson; Othello and Christopher Marlowe; 'Gull'; 'Is't possible?'; 'No remedy'; DocuScope; (Un)fashionable language; Bawdy courts; Tragedy without Shakespeare's language; John Ford; Modernizing Othello; Othello (adapted by Andrew Davies, 2001); O (directed by Tim Blake Nelson, 2001); Stage Beauty (directed by Richard Eyre, 2004); Film adaptation and intertextuality; Othello 1610; Writing matters; 3 Language and boundaries; Iago and thresholds.

Iago and hendiadysIago and puns; Iago as pun; Puns versus metaphors; The Iago music; 'Slipper and subtle' language; Hearing; To be (or not to be); Modal verbs; Modals and power struggles in Marlowe; Modals and power struggles in Othello; Modals and counterfactuals; Ventriloquism; Prose and verse: Othello; Theatre boundaries; Crossing theatre



boundaries; Boundaries gone wrong; Writing matters; Prose and verse: Iago; 4 Writing tips and topics; Tips; Topics; Women; The natural / unnatural; Epistemology; Bibliography and further reading.

Sommario/riassunto

In this volume on Othello, Laurie Maguire examines the use and misuse of language, the play's textual and performance histories and how critics and directors have responded to the language of sexual jealousy.