01847cam a22002654a 4500 120808s2013 nyu b 000 0 eng 9780823241941 9780823241958 SDU PR3069 B47 F 2013 Berger, Harry, A fury in the words : love and embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice / Harry Berger, Jr. 1st ed. New York : Fordham University Press, 2013. 229 p. Mercifixion in The merchant of Venice: the riches of embarrassment -- Introduction -- Negotiating the bond -- Antonio's blues -- Curiositas: the two Sallies -- Negative usury and the arts of embarrassment -- Negative usury: Portia's ring trick -- Portia the embarrasser -- The archery of embarrassment -- The first Jason -- A note on verse and prose in Act 1 -- Another Jason -- Portia cheating -- Portia's hair -- The siege of Belmont -- Covinous casketeers -- Moonlit maundering -- Coigns of vantage -- Standing for judgment -- Standing for sacrifice -- "Here is the money": Bassanio in the bond market -- Twilight in Belmont: Portia's ring cycle -- Death in Venice -- Three's company: contaminated intimacy in Othello. Prehistory in Othello -- Othello's embarrassment in 1.2 and 1.3 -- The proclamation scenes: Act 2 scenes 2 and 3 -- Desdemona on Cyprus: Act 2 scene 1 -- Dark triangles in 3.3 -- Desdemona's greedy ear -- Impertinent trifling: Desdemona's handkerchief -- The Emilian trail -- Iago's soliloquies -- Othello's endgame -- The fury in her words. HKBU library YT2025 M08 Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Embarrassment in literature. 210027 Love in literature. = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 109102 109102 0 0 lcc 0 PR3069 B47 F2013 0 CGB 279361 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-08-26 2 0 PR3069 B47 F 2013 1000374004 2025-08-26 00:00:00 C.1 2025-08-26 GBE