The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.1736 Wednesday, 13 October 1999.
[1] From: Vince Locke <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 12 Oct 1999 14:45:27 PDT
Subj: Re: SHK 10.1727 Re: Desdemona
[2] From: Richard Regan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 13 Oct 1999 01:32:51 EDT
Subj: Re: SHK 10.1727 Re: Desdemona
[3] From: Peter Holland <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 13 Oct 1999 09:42:53 +0100
Subj: Re: SHK 10.1727 Re: Desdemona
[4] From: Michele Marrapodi <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 13 Oct 1999 10:13:02 +0100 (GMT+0100)
Subj: Re: SHK 10.1714 Re: Desdemona
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From: Vince Locke <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 12 Oct 1999 14:45:27 PDT
Subject: 10.1727 Re: Desdemona
Comment: Re: SHK 10.1727 Re: Desdemona
>I think one demon in the other's hell?
According to Norrie Epstein's book The Friendly Shakespeare, "hell" was
an Elizabethan slang term for female genitalia. Could this be a way of
emasculating Othello and rendering him impotent?
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From: Richard Regan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 13 Oct 1999 01:32:51 EDT
Subject: 10.1727 Re: Desdemona
Comment: Re: SHK 10.1727 Re: Desdemona
There is a "dia-" prefix in Greek, meaning "away," or "from." One could
argue that Shakespeare's less Greek or his small Latin allowed him to
make Desdemona a construction meaning "away from demons," i.e. Iago.
Although evidently not far enough away, despite her quite undemonic
nature. (I think I've borrowed this from J.A.S. McPeek.)
Richard Regan
Fairfield University
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From: Peter Holland <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 13 Oct 1999 09:42:53 +0100
Subject: 10.1727 Re: Desdemona
Comment: Re: SHK 10.1727 Re: Desdemona
Anyone interested in the names Shakespeare invented for Othello (and
remember that his source in Cinthio only names a single figure,
Desdemona) should look at the brilliant discussion in Anne Barton's The
Names of Comedy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990).
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From: Michele Marrapodi <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 13 Oct 1999 10:13:02 +0100 (GMT+0100)
Subject: 10.1714 Re: Desdemona
Comment: Re: SHK 10.1714 Re: Desdemona
>>By the way, does anybody knows what "Desdemona" means? Gutierre Tibon's
>>"Diccionario etimol