Word: othello
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fictional characters who otherwise will endure in the pain, anguish and futile passion imagined by their authors. Why, for one instance, shouldn't King Lear be seen in some truly golden retirement years, preferably in an adults-only community? And why not a tale in which Othello and Desdemona kiss and make up? Imagine Lady Macbeth joining the Gray Ladies. Or Molly Bloom enrolling in needlepoint class. Or Sir Clifford Chatterley making a successful pilgrimage to Lourdes...
...subtract from or enhance the moment into which it falls? The deeper reason that sports commentary is annoying is that it so often ruptures the flow of the main event. The effect is easier to see when one imagines it occurring in the middle of a true drama, Othello...
...Tenth-graders can handle Aristotle," insists Robert Squires, president-elect of the National Council of Teachers of English. Indeed, whether or not Aristotle is mentioned by name, most high school discussions of Julius Caesar, Othello and other tragedies build on the characteristics of tragedy originally set out in a few pages of the Poetics. Such fundamental questions as "Is Brutus or Caesar the hero of the play?" and "Why would an honorable man like Brutus join in the conspiracy against Caesar?" are good Aristote lian questions. Nor is Machiavelli unfathomable in an age well versed in political manipulation. Merely asking...