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 board? Lets consider where it deserves to be and why in this essay. The looseness is so quotable consider Desdemonas opening follows before the Council of Venice My dire 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 rig out of Avon expressed his ideas? Robert B. Heilman says in The Role We Give Shakespeare If we use the word support, however, we do surname a way in which Shakespeare serves. It is the way of venerable texts whose legitimacy has impressed itself on the human imagination he has said numerous things in what seems an ultimate form, and he is a fountainhead of quotation and oecumenical center of allusion. A rose by any other name comes to the mouth as readily as Pride goeth bef ore a fall, and seems no less wise. A quotable line is peerless that has mould its context and taken on independent life. Very significantly, Shakespeare scenes and character relationships gull also taken on independent life and have provided prefatory formulations upon which other writers rely. (24-25). Francis Ferguson in Two Worldviews Echo Each Other ranks the free rein 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 mightiness of the story, it belongs with the greatest. But some of its admirers find it too savage. . . .(131) The Bards display 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 Introd uction. 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.