SOURCE: "Othello: Jealousy as Mimetic Contagion," in American Imago, Vol. 44, No. 3, Fall, 1987, pp. 213-33.
In the following essay, Wilson locates Iago as the source of a "contagion of mimetic desire" in Othello.
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