How Does Othello Rate? Essay -- GCSE Coursework Shakespeare Othello

How Does Othello Rate? Is this the best, the second-best, the worst of William Shakespeares tragedies? Where does it place in the calling card? Lets consider where it deserves to be and why in this essay. The solve is so quotable consider Desdemonas opening furrows before the Council of Venice My overlord father, / I do perceive here a divided duty, or Othellos last words Killing myself, to die upon a kiss. Could the go along reputation of Othello be attributed to the quotable ultimate form in which the or figure of speechnt of Avon expressed his ideas? Robert B. Heilman says in The Role We Give Shakespeare If we use the word support, however, we do name a way in which Shakespeare serves. It is the way of venerable texts whose authenticity has impressed itself on the human imagination he has said many another(prenominal) things in what seems an ultimate form, and he is a fountainhead of quotation and ordinary center of allusion. A rose by any other name comes to the mout h as readily as Pride goeth before a fall, and seems no less wise. A quotable line is wiz that has talk its context and taken on independent life. Very significantly, Shakespeare scenes and character relationships grant also taken on independent life and have provided raw material formulations upon which other writers rely. (24-25). Francis Ferguson in Two Worldviews Echo Each Other ranks the bring Othello quite high among the Bards tragedies Othello, written in 1604, is one of the masterpieces of Shakespeares tragic period. In splendor of language, and in the sheer agency of the story, it belongs with the greatest. But some of its admirers find it too savage. . . .(131) The Bards creation of emotions, character, of good a... ...othing. Essays on Shakespeare. Ed. Gerald Chapman. Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press, 1965. Heilman, Robert B. The Role We Give Shakespeare. Essays on Shakespeare. Ed. Gerald Chapman. Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press, 1965. Levin, Harry. General Introduction. The Riverside Shakespeare. Ed. G. Blakemore Evans. Boston Houghton Mifflin Co., 1974. Shakespeare, William. Othello. In The Electric Shakespeare. Princeton University. 1996. http//www.eiu.edu/multilit/studyabroad/othello/othello_all.html No line nos. Wright, Louis B. and Virginia A. LaMar. The Engaging Qualities of Othello. Readings on The Tragedies. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego Greenhaven Press, 1996. Reprint from Introduction to The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare. N. p. Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1957.