Othello (Vol. 35) | Robert Rogers (essay date 1969)
Robert Rogers (essay date 1969)
SOURCE: "Endopsychic Drama in Othello," in Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. XX, No. 2, Spring, 1969, pp. 205-15.
[In the essay below, Rogers examines attitudes toward sexuality and women in Othello and maintains that the conflict between Othello and Iago represents an "antagonism between two inseparable components of a single psychological configuration. "]
The poet whose characters make a thousand sly jokes at the expense of cuckolds wrote a charming spoof on pastoral love in which he has two of his "country copulatives" say:
Audrey: Would you not have me honest?
Touchstone: No, truly, unless thou wert hard-favored, for honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.
Audrey: I am not a slut, though I thank the gods I am foul.
Touchstone: Well, praised be the gods for thy...
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