Othello (3 of 3)

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• BR

  @brianonuanain7535 · 1 year ago

  Bless you Paul. We thank you and we miss you. Shakespeare would have loved you, almost as much as you loved him

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• TA

  @tamarabedic9601 · 1 year ago

  One of the best.  Thank you, Prof. Cantor.

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• SE

  @semper-egoauditor-tantum9451 · 7 years ago

  Thank you. I found these lectures very illuminating and stimulating (esp the cross references) and highly entertaining too.

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• JO

  @johnk8174 · 6 years ago

  This is masterful teaching.

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• RY

  @ryancostea933 · 4 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8aLsjvLvA4&amp;t=3310">55:10</a> &quot;Behold the Lion&quot;

• 1N

  @1National8zeri · 1 year ago

  ❤❤❤❤ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8aLsjvLvA4&amp;t=40">0:40</a>

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• JA

  @jamesduggan7200 · 7 years ago

  Deconstructing &quot;Othello&quot; one could reasonably conclude that the proof of his humanity is the process of his arrival at the determination to kill Desdemona. His response (using Derrida&apos;s terminology) to Iago&apos;s stimuli is a thinking process rather than one of mimesis. He acts according to deliberation, not reaction, or animalistic instinct.

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• JA

  @jamesduggan7200 · 7 years ago (edited)

  Having just listened to part 2 of 3 on &quot;Othello&quot; I feel tempted to record an overlong post here. I will resist that temptation and limit my comment to the observation that Shakespeare criticism fills entire aisles of university libraries. There is nothing new to say, and students sometimes overreach in the desire to be recognized.

• JO

  @joeruf6526 · 4 years ago

  such a strange way to read the play. &nbsp;How can one assume Shakespeare would undermine his own drama to hide many of the points Prof Cantor makes? &nbsp;Shakespeare wasn&apos;t a 19th century German nor a Straussian nor did he presuppose a liberal &quot;self interest&quot;.

• TH

  @TheBraunzone · 1 year ago

  I love this, but. Every time the professor talks, he reveals a bias against Othello and Desdemona that is telling about both Shakespeare and himself that any man of color or &nbsp;of honor can plainly see as a reflection of Iago hinself.