SOURCE: “Marriage and Mutuality in Othello,” in Love's Argument: Gender Relations in Shakespeare, University of North Carolina Press, 1984, pp. 125-49.
In the essay below, Novy considers patriarchy in the marriage of Othello and Desdemona.
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