
Othello
Approaching Shakespeare
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The Comedy of a Fellow
Act one of a fellow is a miniature comedy lovers overcome differences to be together in Verdi's opera or teller he does away with the whole of the first act beginning instead with the storm that brings the couple to Cyprus. The presence of comedy in this play make the tragedy more or less tragic and how does that question of genre to bring us back to my focus for this lecture how does that intersect with a fellow's race with Thomas Rimer's scorn that a more could ever be considered a tragic hero and debates about ethnic geographical and ultimately moral connotations of a fellow's skin color. next week i want to try something similar with Henry the fifth ducks strangely recur as will questions of national
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