"Dangerous conceits" and "bloody passion": The Dual Master-Slave Reversal in Othello.

The article informs that the Black and slave were by no means interchangeable terms in the seventeenth century. It mentions the master-slave dynamic in Othello operates on two levels simultaneously: the sociohierarchical level, and the psychohierarchical level.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Philological Quarterly Vol. 99; no. 3; pp. 295 - 315
Main Author: CAUCHI, FRANCESCA
Format: Article
Published: Department of English, University of Iowa Summer2020
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