person
Desdemona
also: Desdemóna
The tragic heroine of Shakespeare's Othello; Madách cites her as a model of patient long-suffering that modern audiences, accustomed to fashionable hysteria, find insufficiently dramatic.
Reading notes
- On Women and Their Vocation §1 Desdemóna
The tragic heroine of Shakespeare's Othello; Madách cites her as a model of patient long-suffering that modern audiences, accustomed to fashionable hysteria, find insufficiently dramatic.