Excerpt from A Further Study of the Othello: Have We Misunderstood Shakespeare's Moor? The theory presented in these pages must stand or fall as an entirety. Yet it seems to me, what ever else its fate in the judgment of students, it at least, and at last, answers the long-standing accu sation against Shakespeare of sympathy with race prejudice and indifference to the claims of the com mon people; for in this interpretation we have a black man, who was once a slave, rising by his own merit to become a commander over white ...
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Excerpt from A Further Study of the Othello: Have We Misunderstood Shakespeare's Moor? The theory presented in these pages must stand or fall as an entirety. Yet it seems to me, what ever else its fate in the judgment of students, it at least, and at last, answers the long-standing accu sation against Shakespeare of sympathy with race prejudice and indifference to the claims of the com mon people; for in this interpretation we have a black man, who was once a slave, rising by his own merit to become a commander over white nobles; awarded the surpassing love of the almost angelic Desdemona; above all, rendered in heart and soul truly worthy such devotion, and invested with a nobility and loftiness such as Shakespeare has bestowed upon no hero of his own race. And be yond this momentous meaning, the theory now presented, if true, throws a finer light than hereto fore on Shakespeare's final attitude toward the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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