"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.
| Published in: | Philological Quarterly Vol. 99; no. 3; pp. 295 - 315 |
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Department of English, University of Iowa
Summer2020
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