ENGB33 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: John Pory, Psychomachia, Masculinity
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Iago repeats the words othello says after othello has given him the recipie he needs to suspect. What are iago"s motivations: power hunger, jealousy transference of this emotion to othello. Iago is jealous of othello makes othello jealous of desdemona: racism outsider"s shouldn"t hold positions of higher ranks than insiders. Handkerchief comes to rep honour cassio has handkerchief means he has desd"s honour. Ptolemiac- ptolemaic dynasty 305 bc-30-bc (ethnic greece) Source text: plutarch, lives of the noble grecians and romans. Leo africanus history and descp of africa: transl, english by john pory 1600. How does this play create a dichotomy b/w tome and egypt (west & east) Written few yrs after othello, a & c explore radical differences/ colonial expansion in a very diff way from othello. Sexual passion expresses but ultimately sabotages imperial ambition. Cleo= 1 of 3 female characters featured in a shake"s title. Cleo has greater role in dramatic action than her male counterpart (antony)
