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- Title
INDIA AND INDIAN OR JUDEA AND JUDEAN? SHAKESPEARE'S OTHELLO V.ii.356, AND PEELE'S EDWARD I i.107.
- Authors
Jackson, MacD P.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the meaning of the word "Iudean" in the drama "Othello" by William Shakespeare. The author refers to the 1593 Quarto of George Peele's chronicle history Edward I for a possible answer to the question. A the beginning of Peele's play King Edward Longshanks and his brother Edmund, Duke of Lancaster, return to England with their troops from a successful crusade against the Turks in holy land. He tells his men, "Dub on your drums tan with Indiacs sunne, my lustie westerne lads." The metre confirms that Judea, stressed on the second syllable, not India, stressed on the first, was intended.
- Subjects
SYLLABLE (Grammar); HISTORICAL drama; VOCABULARY; DIALOGUE; AUTHORS; ENGLISH literature
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1988, Vol 35, Issue 4, p479
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/35-4-479