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Masterclass Othello - Digby Ricci
There is no better way to deepen your understanding of Shakespeare’s Othello than to engage with Digby Ricci’s in-depth elucidation of the text. This nuanced guide to the great tragedy illuminates all its central concerns — prejudice, jealousy, evil, marriage, idealised love, the status of women, insecurity, and anagnorisis — in a style that is clear and comprehensible, without lapsing into over-simplification. Always emphasising the necessity for close reading and the constant use of accurate and relevant quotations from the text, Digby Ricci presents his own reasoned and thoroughly substantiated interpretation, while acknowledging differing scholarly viewpoints. Thus, this masterclass also assists students of the text to express and substantiate their own views as clearly and persuasively as possible. It is a guide to successful literary analysis, as much as it is an exploration of a dramatic masterpiece.
Masterclass Othello
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INTRODUCTION TO OTHELLO
DIGBY RICCI
Digby Ricci completed his B.A. Honours at the University of the Witwatersrand and his M.A. at the University of Toronto. He went on to lecture at Wits University and at RAU (as the University of Johannesburg was known in the 1980s); later, he accepted a teaching position at King David High School, Linksfield, where he also acted as Head of the Department of English. Digby was Head of the Department of English at Roedean (South Africa) for no fewer than seventeen years. In addition to his lecturing and teaching, Digby also edited an anthology of writing about Johannesburg, Reef of Time (Ad Donker:1986), and he co-authored, with Mrs Jennifer Addleson, a guide to correct language usage, Writing Wrongs (Academica: 1989). In partnership with Hilary Semple, he has co-edited two Bankside editions of Shakespeare texts (Romeo and Juliet and Othello). He is a popular guest lecturer on literature and cinema and presents Brush Up the Bard lectures on You Tube. Currently, Digby is employed at Redhill School, as a subject expert in English.