Joel B Altman: 1 book
The Improbability of Othello
Rhetorical Anthropology and Shakespearean Selfhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Shakespeare’s dramatis personae exist in a world of supposition, struggling to connect knowledge that cannot be had, judgments that must be made, and actions that need to be taken. For them, probability—what they and others might be persuaded to believe—governs human affairs, not certainty....
