Desdemona’s changing voices: from the “Willow Song” to the “Canzona del Salice”
The Willow Song in Shakespeare’s Othello involves a complex intertwining of mimetic processes: a boy actor enacts the female Desdemona, who imitates a maid called Barbary singing an old ditty, while the original singer referred to herself as a singing (or sighing) lover sitting at the foot of a tree...
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Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
2013-06-01
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| Series: | Sillages Critiques |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/2847 |