Published: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007
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xviii, 427 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
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“…B, from counsel to the husband: to the wife instruction -- Hannah Woolley, from the gentlewoman's
companion; or, a guide to the female sex -- Martin Parker, from the married man's lesson: or, a dissuasion from jealousy -- From the cuckhold's haven -- Masculinity and military life -- Robert Barret, from the theory and practice of modern wars -- Thomas Proctor, from of the knowledge and conduct of wars -- Thomas and Leonard Digges, from an arithmetical military treatise, named stratioticos -- Thomas Styward, from the pathway to martial discipline -- John Taylor, from a valorous and perilous sea-fight fought with three Turkish ships -- Passions -- Thomas Wright, from the passions of the mind in general -- Pierre de la Primaudaye, from the French academy -- Love and jealousy -- Thomas Buoni, from problems of beauty and all
human affections -- Benedetto Varchi, from the blazon of jealousy -- Robert Burton, from anatomy of melancholy -- Francis Bacon, from the essays or counsels, civil and moral -- Encounters with Othello --
Critical encounters -- Thomas Rymer, from a short view of tragedy -- Charlotte Ramsey Lennox, from Shakespeare illustrated -- William Winter, from othello: as presented by Edwin Booth -- Staging women -- Thomas Jordan, from the nursery of novelties in a variety of poetry -- Paula Vogel, from Desdemona: a play about a handkerchief -- Blackface minstrelsy -- Desdemonum: Ethiopian burlesque, in three scenes -- Thomas Dartmouth rice, from Otello: Burlesque opera -- Postcolonial encounters -- Tayeb Salih, from season of migration to the North -- Derek Walcott, goats and monkeys -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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