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Journal articles on the topic "Macbeth and Othello plays"

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CUŢITARU, CODRIN LIVIU. "CULTURAL AMBIGUITY AS IRRECONCILABLE ANTAGONISM IN SHAKESPEARE’S MAJOR TRAGEDIES." Analele Universităţii Bucureşti. Limbi şi Literaturi Străine 72, no. 1/2023 (2023): 3–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.62229/aubllslxxii/1_23/1.

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This paper aims at exploring the cultural ambiguity which William Shakespeare remarkably extracts from the sources of his major plays, turning it into an essential instrument of the tragic and the tragedy, i.e. into a form of irreconcilable conflict, antagonism. Therefore, what in normal/modern circumstances would appear as “plagiarism” becomes here a token of artistic genius and brilliant creation, the very nucleus of the tragic construction. We approach, from this angle, the four outstanding tragedies Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth, intending to clearly define each one’s cultural (th
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Cuțitaru, Codrin Liviu. "The Genius of Shakespeare’s “Plagiarisms”. Case Studies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth." Linguaculture 2017, no. 1 (2017): 63–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lincu-2017-0006.

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Abstract This paper aims at exploring the cultural ambiguity which William Shakespeare remarkably extracts from the sources of his major plays, turning it, eventually, into an essential instrument of the tragic and the tragedy. What in normal/modern circumstances would easily count as “plagiarism”, becomes here, paradoxically, a token of artistic genius and brilliant creation. Our examples will be from the four outstanding tragedies—Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. The sources selected by our research will be Saxo Grammaticus’s Histoires tragiques, Cinthio’s Un Capitano Moro, the Celtic
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Islam, Md Shafiqul. "Shakespeare’s Great Tragedies." Crossings: A Journal of English Studies 2, no. 1 (2009): 248–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.59817/cjes.v2i1.413.

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Mohit Ul Alam has accomplished a splendid job for those who want to read Shakespeare’s great tragedies in Bangla. He completed with virtuosity his arduous but praiseworthy task by presenting us with Bangla renditions of Shakespeare’s great plays in one edition: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth…
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John, Drakakis. "Shakespeare, Tragedy, Post-truth: Hamlet, Othello and Antony and Cleopatra." Trivium A multi disciplinary journal of humanities of Chandernagore College 2, no. 2 (2018): 1–28. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13826326.

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The recent controversy concerning 'fake news', truth and falsehood provides the stimulus for the following argument that seeks to investigate different kinds of language in a series of Shakespeare plays: Hamlet, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. It is clear that at the turn of the 16th-17th century the issue of the representational powers of language was topical, and the following arguments seek to show how that issue develops primarily in three plays, but it could also be extended to cover more. In Hamlet different kinds of language compete with one another, from the purveyance of 'false trut
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Hamid, G. Jewad. "An Analysis of Euphemism in the Selected Literary Texts." International Journal of Social Science and Human Research 07, no. 09 (2024): 7186–94. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13840222.

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Euphemism is a commonly used literary device in various forms of literature. It serves to soften or mask harsh, sensitive, or unpleasant words or concepts, often substituting them with more polite, indirect, or socially acceptable expressions. Euphemism can be found in novels, poems, plays, and other literary works. Euphemism can be used to reflect and comment on societal norms, cultural values, or political contexts. By examining the language choices made by characters or narrators, readers can gain insights into the power dynamics, prejudices, or social expectations of a particular time or p
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Prof., Sarita Jain. "Embedded Madness: Mad Narrators and the Possible Worlds: A study of Shakespeare's Plays." Embedded Madness: Mad Narrators and the Possible Worlds: A study of Shakespeare's Plays 9, no. 1 (2024): 375–92. https://doi.org/10.36993/ RJOE.2024.9.1.392.

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Madness is a theme especially prevalent in the works of Shakespeare. Whether using it as comedy or tragedy, the sheer number of characters afflicted with mental health crises on Shakespeare’s stage is impressive. What is equally worth noting is the effect that Shakespeare’s staged breakdowns has on those viewing or reading his works and how this impact may differ drastically depending on the viewer’s own culture. After a basic examination of Elizabethan cultural views regarding what is now referred to as mental health, various examples
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Mazer, Cary M. "Shakespeare at Stratford. Series edited by Robert Smallwood, Susan Brock, and Russell Jackson. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2002; King Richard III. By Gillian Day. xiii + 259 pp. $24.99; Shakespeare at Stratford. Series edited by Robert Smallwood, Susan Brock, and Russell Jackson. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2002; The Merchant of Venice. By Miriam Gilbert. xiii + 183 pp. $24.99; Shakespeare at Stratford. Series edited by Robert Smallwood, Susan Brock, and Russell Jackson. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2002; The Winter's Tale. By Patricia E. Tatspaugh. xiii + 240 pp. $24.99." Theatre Survey 45, no. 1 (2004): 155–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557404400088.

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Scholars preparing production histories of individual Shakespeare plays have long been faced with the challenges of structuring their studies. The scholar can choose to write a straightforward one-actor-or-production-after-another monograph (Rosenberg on Othello, Ripley on Julius Caesar and Coriolanus, Bartholomeuz on Macbeth and The Winter's Tale, etc.), a transhistorical encyclopedic scene-by-scene and line-by-line collation (Rosenberg on King Lear, Macbeth, and Hamlet), a transhistorical interlineated text (Bratton and Hankey's Shakespeare in Production editions, under a variety of differen
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Ćirović, Mirka. "CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDIES OTHELLO, HAMLET, KING LEAR AND MACBETH – LIFE AND DEATH (KONCEPTUALNA METAFORA U ŠEKSPIROVIM TRAGEDIJAMA OTELO, HAMLET, KRALJ LIR I MAKBET – ŽIVOT I SMRT)." Folia linguistica et litteraria X, no. 28 (2019): 127–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902/fll.28.2019.8.

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This work analyzes conceptual metaphors in metaphorical linguistic expressions which are extracted from Shakespeare’s four major plays Othello, Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth. Metaphorical linguistic expressions selected from the plays refer to abstract concepts of life and death, which preoccupied Shakespeare in his tragedies. In order to understand the four plays mentioned and individual lines in them, it is very importnat to gain insight into how Shakespeare’s characters, Shakespeare himself and man in general reason about existential questions and questions of purpose which have always been
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Ivashchenko, Iryna. "Eclecticism of "Multiagent Effects" in the Interpretations of Shakespearean Tragedies by the Director E. Nekrošius." Bulletin of KNUKiM. Series in Arts, no. 41 (December 30, 2019): 71–76. https://doi.org/10.31866/2410-1176.41.2019.188641.

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The purpose of the article is to identify the specifics of the interpretation of W. Shakespeare’s plays Hamlet (1997), Macbeth (1999) and Othello (2000) by director E. Nekrošius, as well as to analyse the features of his creative methods and techniques. The research methodology. An interdisciplinary approach and the following scientific methods were applied. Typological-structural method is to structure the basic principles of synergies between peculiar elements of the director’s tools of E. Nekrošius; the method of art history analysis is to identify the specifics of
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Md, Monirujjaman. "She-villain in Shakespeare's Tragedies." She-villain in Shakespeare's Tragedies 8, no. 3 (2024): 267–71. https://doi.org/10.36993/ RJOE.2023.8.3.271.

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William Shakespeare is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in English language theworld has ever seen. He is also called the “Bird of Avon” as he was born in Stratford-upon-Avon,Warwickshire, United Kingdom. He wrote around fifty plays. Among these, his ten plays fall intothe category of tragedy- Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear,Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, and Titus Andronicus. It is found that malecharacters play the dominant figure in his tragic plays. But this article will try to explore the role offemale char
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Macbeth and Othello plays"

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Scott, Lindsey A. "Caught between presence and absence : Shakespeare's tragic women on film." Thesis, University of Chester, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/100153.

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In offering readings of Shakespeare’s tragic women on film, this thesis explores bodies that are caught between signifiers of absence and presence: the woman’s body that is present with absent body parts; the woman’s body that is spoken about or alluded to when absent from view; the woman’s living body that appears as a corpse; the woman’s body that must be exposed and concealed from sight. These are bodies that appear on the borderline of meaning, that open up a marginal or liminal space of investigation. In concentrating on a state of ‘betweenness’, I am seeking to offer new interpretive pos
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Khan, Amir. "Counterfactual Thinking and Shakespearean Tragedy: Imagining Alternatives in the Plays." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24310.

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This dissertation is the application of counterfactual criticism to Shakespearean tragedy—supposing we are to ask, for example, “what if” Hamlet had done the deed, or, “what if” we could somehow disinherit our knowledge of Lear’s madness before reading King Lear. Such readings, mirroring critical practices in history, will loosely be called “counterfactual” readings. The key question to ask is not why tragedies are no longer being written (by writers), but why tragedies are no longer being felt (by readers). Tragedy entails a certain urgency in wanting to imagine an outcome different from the
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Hays, Michael Louis. "Shakespearean tragedy as chivalric romance : rethinking Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello and King Lear /." Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2003. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy045/2003004936.html.

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McCleary, Mary. "Textual composition and the Macbeth, Othello, and Falstaff of Shakespeare and Verdi." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/32035.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University<br>PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.<br>The dissertation examines adaptations of Shakespearean plays in the operatic libretti of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), who dominated Italian opera in the second half of the nineteenth century. Although Verdi re
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Christofides, R. M. "Shakespeare and equivocation : language and the doom in Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2008. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55788/.

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Equivocation is a condition of language that runs riot in Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear. Whether as ambiguity or dissimulation, equivocation propels the plots of these plays to their tragic finales. The Doom as depicted in pre-Reformation churches is invoked in the plays as a force that could end both equivocation and tragedy. However, Shakespeare withholds this divine intervention, allowing the tragedy to play out. Chapter One outlines the thesis, explains the methodological approach, and locates the thesis in relation to the major fields of Shakespeare studies. Chapter Two focuses
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Chahed, Lakhoua Khaoula. "Sexe et pouvoir dans les tragédies de Shakespeare : Hamlet, Othello, King Lear et Macbeth." Paris 10, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA100144.

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Cette etude se propose, a travers une combinaison d'approches theoriques, de contexte historique et d'analyse textuelle de reconstruire les quatre tragedies de shakespeare : hamlet, othello, king lear et macbeth et de decouvrir l'inconscient d'une culture qui a reprime l'authentique de l'etre, en particulier de la femme, a un point ou cette derniere a essaye d'echapper a cette culture pour decouvrir son identite. Cette recherche combine l'etude sociale et l'histoire intellectuelle de la periode shakespearienne. Elle examine comment les relations entre les sexes a une epoque de transition influ
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Omar, Lamis Ismail. "A cognitive approach to the translation of creative metaphor in Othello and Macbeth from English into Arabic." Thesis, Durham University, 2012. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6965/.

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Despite the intriguing nature of metaphor and its acknowledged importance in the discipline of Translation Studies (TS), a relatively small number of studies have explored the translation of metaphor from the perspective of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and very few of them adopted an experiential approach to the object of analysis. This research aims at exploring the translatability of creative metaphor in six Arabic translations of Shakespeare’s Othello and Macbeth based on a combined methodology that adopts the Conceptual Theory of Metaphor and the descriptive approach to text analysis in TS.
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McGrath, Alyssa F. "Aaron, Othello, and Caliban: Shakespeare's Presentation of Ethnic Minorities in Titus Andronicus, Othello, and The Tempest." Marietta College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marhonors1367332575.

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Rafimomen, Afsaneh. "Nature et pouvoir dans les tragédies de Shakespeare, quel conflit ? : l'exemple de Hamlet, Othello, King Lear et Macbeth." Nice, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011NICE2012.

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Cette étude présente, dans une première partie, une réflexion sur l'idée de nature dans quatre tragédies de William Shakespeare dans la perspective d'un lien que nous établissons, dans une deuxième partie, avec l'idée fondamentale de pouvoir. L'analyse des personnages en tant qu'éléments centraux à cette tension entre les deux notions, le rappel de la façon dont Shakespeare les situe par rapport à l'une et à l'autre, nous amènent à envisager le passage de la dyade "nature/ pouvoir" à la triade "nature- homme - pouvoir" comme le ressort essentiel de la tragédie shakespearienne. Cette prise de c
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Mngomezulu, Thulisile Fortunate. "Central women characters and their influence in Shakespeare, with particular reference to the Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1114.

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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of English at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 2009.<br>Shakespeare portrayed women in his plays as people who should be valued. This is an opinion I held in the past, and one I still hold after intense reading of his works and that of authors such as Marlowe, Webster, Thomas Kyd and others. Shakespeare created his female characters out of a mixture of good and evil. When they interact with others, either the best or the worst in them is brought
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Books on the topic "Macbeth and Othello plays"

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Shakespeare, William. Othello: Macbeth. Doubleday Book & Music Clubs, 1990.

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Shakespeare, William. Hamlet / Macbeth / King Lear / Othello. Longmeadow Press, 1995.

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Shakespeare, William. Four Tragedies: Hamlet / Othello / King Lear / Macbeth. Edited by David Bevington. Bantam Books, 1988.

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Shakespeare, William. Amleto: Otello ; Macbeth ; Re Lear. Garzanti, 1988.

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Brand, P. A. Birmingham Rep. and Bill Alexander: Three plays directed by Bill Alexander at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (Othello, The tempest, Macbeth). University of Birmingham, 1996.

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K, Carey G., ed. Shakespeare's tragedies, notes: Summaries and critical commentaries about the tragedies of William Shakespeare, including Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Timon of Athens, Anthony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus. Cliffs Notes, 1999.

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Suter, Joanne. Macbeth. Lake Education, 1996.

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Suter, Joanne. Macbeth. American Guidance Service, 1996.

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Wesker, Arnold. Lady Othello and other plays. Penguin Books, 1990.

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ill, Hutchison David 1974, and Shakespeare William 1564-1616, eds. William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Magic Wagon, 2008.

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Parker, Fred. "5. Giving Audience to Madness." In Tragedy and the Witness. Open Book Publishers, 2025. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0435.05.

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The chapter deals with how certain tragic dramas represent madness, states of estrangement difficult for others to relate to. The phenomena of madness are involved with an insufficiently supportive environment of onlooker and listener; to that environment they stand as both cause and consequence, as defence and also perhaps as riposte. Key examples here are Beckett’s Not I and Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis. Developing these thoughts into Othello and Hamlet brings in a new element: the mother-child relation as something which figures or informs the support or betrayal of the protagonist by the world, a
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Simon, Ulrich. "Othello and Macbeth." In Pity and Terror. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20343-7_11.

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McGuire, Philip C. "Macbeth: ‘Double, Double’." In Shakespeare: The Jacobean Plays. Macmillan Education UK, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23405-9_6.

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Kolin, Philip C. "“Black up again”: Combating Macbeth in Contemporary African-American Plays." In Weyward Macbeth. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-10216-3_24.

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Erickson, Peter. "Black Characters in Search of an Author: Black Plays on Black Performers of Shakespeare." In Weyward Macbeth. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-10216-3_25.

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Brown, Georgia. "Defining Nature Through Monstrosity in Othello and Macbeth." In Early Modern Ecostudies. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230617940_4.

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McGuire, Philip C. "Othello: ‘A Pageant to Keep Us in False Gaze’." In Shakespeare: The Jacobean Plays. Macmillan Education UK, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23405-9_4.

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Power, Andrew J. "Lady Macbeth and Othello, Convention and Transgression in Early Modern Tragedy." In Staged Transgression in Shakespeare’s England. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137349354_16.

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Liang, Lia Wen-ching. "Coda: Theatrical Bricolage of Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Othello in Beijing (1986)." In Global Shakespeares. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92993-0_8.

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Purkiss, Diane. "Macbeth and the All-singing, All-dancing Plays of the Jacobean Witch-vogue." In Shakespeare, Feminism and Gender. Macmillan Education UK, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-62826-7_11.

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