Green Worlds: Shakespeare’s Plays and Early Modern Imagery

If Iago’s famous words to Othello defining jealousy as “the green-eyed monster” (3.3.170) clearly associate green with bilious envy, Cleopatra’s reference to her “salad days” (Antony and Cleopatra, 1.5.72) tends to equate ‘greenness’ with fresh innocence. This paper will seek to explore how such flu...

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Main Author: Anne-Marie COSTANTINI-CORNEDE
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2015-06-01
Series:E-REA
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/erea/4445