The Improbability of Othello: Rhetorical Anthropology and Shakespearean Selfhood Book

Acknowledgments

Prologue. "As If for Surety": The Problematics of Shakespearean Probability

Part I. Toward a Rhetorical Genealogy of Othello

One. "My Parts, My Title, and My Perfect Soul": Ingenuity, Apodeixis, and the Origins of Rhetorical Anthropology

Two. "Against My Estimation": Ciceronian Decorum, Stoic Constancy, and the Production of Ethos

Part II. The Logic of Renaissance Rhetoric

Three. "Apt and True": Speech, World, and Thought in Shakespeare's Humanist Dialectic

Four. "Yonder's Fair Murders Done": Place, Predicament, and Grammatical Space on Cyprus

Part III. Willful Words, Christian Anxieties, and Shakespearean Dramaturgy

Five. "Tis in Ourselves That We Are Thus, or Thus": Will, Habit, and the Discourse of Res

Six. 'Preposterous Conclusions": Eros, Enargeia, and Composition in Othello

Seven. "Prophetic Fury": The Language of Theatrical Potentiality and the Economy of Shakespearean Reception

Part IV. Tropings of the Self in Shakespeare's Scripts

Eight. "I Am Not What I Am": Shakespeare's Scripted Subject

Nine. "Nobody. I Myself": Discovering What Passes Show

Part V. Performing the Improbable Other on Shakespeare's Stage

Ten. "Were I the Moor, I Would Not Be Iago": Ligatures of Self and Stranger

Eleven. "It Is Not Words That Shakes Me Thus": Burbage, as if Othello

Epilogue. "Make Not Impossible / That Which But Seems Unlike": The Twilight of Probability and the Dawn of Shakespearean Romance

Notes

Bibliography

Index