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In this chapter I shall be considering the play in relation to one of Othello’s grand announcements. In the following lines he announces a motive and intent of being free and bounteous to Desdemona’s mind:
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Chapter 1. ‘But to be free, and bounteous to her minde’
Thomas Keightley, The Shakespeare-Expositor: An Aid to the Perfect Understanding of Shakespeare’s Plays (London, 1867) p. 299. Quoted in H. H. Furness (ed.), Othello, New Variorum Shakespeare, 11th edn (Philadelphia and London, 1886) p. 71n.
A. D. Nuttall, A New Mimesis: Shakespeare and the Representation of Reality (London and New York, 1983) p. 138.
M.R. Ridley (ed.), Othello, Arden Shakespeare (London and New York, 1958; 1st paperback edn 1965) p. 34n.
Robert B. Heilman, Magic in the Web: Action and Language in ‘Othello’ (Westport, Conn., 1977) p. 138. (1st edn Lexington, Ky, 1956.)
John Bayley, The Characters of Love, 2nd edn (London, 1968) p. 166.
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Elliott, M. (1988). ‘But to be free, and bounteous to her minde’. In: Shakespeare’s Invention of Othello. Contemporary Interpretations of Shakespeare. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09517-9_1
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