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The Paramaterial Phantasy

“Drops tears as fast as the Arabian trees”: Othello’s Tears and the Weeping Trees of Acacia and Myrrh. A Corrective Gloss to Most Modern Editions of Shakespeare.

I. “The Arbaian trees their medicinable gum”: Othello’s Weeping Trees During Othello’s suicide speech, he makes several references that have attracted the attention of modern editors and scholars. The most famous concerns the textual variations between the Quarto and Folio versions of the line “Like a base Indian, threw a pearl away.” Whereas the Quarto […]

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Posted in Scholarship, Shaping Sense, William Shakespeare, Tangents Tagged vision, Othello, early modern, jealousy, Herbals, Iago, history of the senses, seeing as, imagination, Gerard, Petrarch, Phantasy, Shakespeare

Reuben’s Mandrakes

While writing my last post on Ambroise Paré’s monstrous Phantasy, I came across a reference to Genesis 30 that captured my own imagination. Having researched and written before on the passages from Paré and Montaigne I discussed there, I somehow overlooked the bizarre Biblical reference that appeared in each. In previously thinking about representations of […]

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Posted in Politics, Tangents Tagged Shakespeare, cultural criticism, gay marriage, Genesis, Herbals, mandrake, marriage equality, politics, religion 1 Comment

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