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Proving Desdemona Haggard: Metaphor and Marriage in Othello

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[F]or we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. (George Eliot, Middlemarch)

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© 2011 Maria Franziska Fahey

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Fahey, M.F. (2011). Proving Desdemona Haggard: Metaphor and Marriage in Othello. In: Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama. Early Modern Literature in History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230308800_2

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