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Title: META-DRAMA IN OTHELLO

Author: Peter Milward

Category: Arts and Literature (Novels, Essays, Critiques)
Number of pages: 96
Size: A5

Language: English

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Book Summary

Though they are called (by AC Bradley) "the four great tragedies", there is such a great difference between Hamlet, which comes at the end of the Elizabethan age, and Othello, which comes at the beginning of the Jacobean age. The one is so confusing and complicated, whereas the other is so simple, with so many elements of the old medieval drama, both the morality plays and the mystery plays, leading up to the Passion and Death of Jesus.

Author Profile

Peter Milward was born in London on October 12, 1925, and educated at Wimbledon College (a Jesuit high school). He entered the Society of Jesus in 1943, and after various studies he went on to specialize in the Classics and English at Oxford University. He came to Japan in 1954 and after further studies was ordained priest in 1960. From 1962 onwards he has taught English literature at Sophia University in Tokyo. In addition to founding the Renaissance Institute, the Hopkins Society of Japan and the Chesterton Society of Japan, he has published some 400 books, mostly as textbooks for Japanese students, many of them translated into Japanese, but now most of them out of print. Several of his books, especially those on the drama of Shakespeare and the poetry of Hopkins, have been published in England and America. Even in retirement he is still teaching and writing, as he enters his 88th year (or beiju).

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