Othello
Important note, to me, in the This Is Shakespeare text, specifically, from the introductory notes about Othello, but applies across a larger scenario?
“One of Shakespeare’s most extraordinary claims on our modern attention is the capacity of his plays to anticipate our contemporary worldview. To some extent, of course, this is confirmation bias: we are taught that Shakespeare is humanely and timelessly relevant and therefore we are primed to discover it in his works.” Page 210.
Love Emma Smith’s works on the complete works.
“Psycho-babble” refers to chatter that attaches psychological terms to extant conditions. Pursuant to that thought, and what bubbled up during a meditative moment, an issue wherein the perception of the injury was wholly cut from the cloth of non-reality. Made-up mistake. Speculative hurt that spiraled out of control to the point that the feelings attached demanded a kind of retribution for something that didn’t ever happen. There’s a very immature adolescent essence to this, as well, imaginary emotional damage over false perceptions. In part, I realized, this play catches that very sentiment, amplified and accelerated to a tragedy.
Iago, honest Iago, he killed it.
Othello
Used before?
the Portable Mercury Retrograde
