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• W2111434247 abstract "Intercession, Detraction, and Just Judgment in Othello R. Chris Hassel Jr. Cassio:O, behold! The riches of the ship is come on shore! You men of Cyprus, let her have your knees. Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven, Before, behind thee, and on every hand, Enwheel thee round!1 Peter Milward calls Cassio's speech welcoming Desdemona to Cyprus a remarkable echoing of Gabriel's greeting of Mary at the Annunciation . Robert Hunter responds to it, Ave Desdemona gratia plenae.2 IfCassio's extraordinary salutation and praise ofDesdemona were the only Marian allusion in the play, we would probably write it offas the courtiyextravaganceofone ofthe curled darlings ofVenice.3 The play is packed, however, with references to Desdemona's likenesses and dissimilarities to the Virgin of religious art, the mystery plays, and associated Reformation controversy. lago casts Desdemona in the controversial Marian role of intercessor, then imputes the intensity of her intercession for Cassio to her fallen sexuality. Even when he challenges Desdemona's blessed condition it is often with sexual words that are packedwith theological implications abouttheVirgin mother ofChrist.4 Mystery plays like the Troubles ofJoseph and the Trial ofMary and Joseph may also inform Shakespeare's representation ofDesdemona's detraction and defense and Othello's consideration ofher imputed guilt, especially in Iago's likenesses to Mary's backbiters or detractors and in Othello's dissimilarities to a Joseph who also thinks himselfabused by a younger wife. Othello's grotesque misjudgment, first of Desdemona, 43 44Comparative Drama then of himself, also evokes in its persistent considerations of Desdemona's virtues and faults both the central merit-grace issue ofthe Reformation and the plays and paintings of just judgment, especially their mutual emphasis on intercession and psychostasis, the verbal and/or visual weighing of merit and demerit. Even when Othello attempts to respond to Iago's poison which turns her virtue into pitch, he unconsciously weighs Desdemona's imagined demerits against her known merits by using many of the religious lyrics' traditional images of Marian praise. I hope to show that this complex system of analogy and allusion informs Othello with a psychological and a theological depth that has too often eluded its post-enlightenment audience.5 lago, the Blessed Virgin, and Intercession The Virgin Mary's best-known and most controversial attribute during the Reformation is arguably her reputed power to intercede for mercy with her son Christ the judge and Christ the redeemer now and at the hour ofour death. Luther's central tenet ofsolafide, sola gratia, salvation by faith or grace alone, minimized the importance ofintercession of all kinds as part of its downplaying of merit, works, in the process of salvation. But mediation itself was also problematic, since the reformers thought the individual worshiper had access to Christ's mercy without the intervention ofa priest or a saint. John Donne speaks to this controversy both when he calls the Marianists rather idolaters ofthe blessed Virgin Mary, then worshipers ofChrist and when he complains of the semi-gods [and] sesqui-gods ofthe Romane church, especially any that must be more then God, and receive appeals from God, and reverse the decrees ofGod,which theymake the office oftheVirgin Mary. This idea ofMarian intercession not only relegated Christ to the roles of just judge and severe justicer instead of chiefand only mediator, merciful intercessor with the Old Testament God of Judgment for the remission of sins. Because it gave Mary a sacramental and an eschatological role virtually coequal with Christ's, it also encouraged Marian idolatry. Such fears help explain the official suppression of Marian imagery and praise during Shakespeare's time, and therefore its paradoxical prominence through the resultant controversy.6 That several Tudor queens R. Chris Hassel Jr.45 appropriated Marian lore and imagery in their own royal iconography, even as they deviated so remarkably from it in their own personal lives, did not lower the profile ofthis material in Shakespeare's time.7 Critics have seldom noticed how often Desdemona's intercession for Cassio is charged with some ofthese issues, much less shown that Iago's imputations of her impurity, her sexuality, complicate this part of the Marian analogyin terms that often foreground..." @default.
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