Katherine Walker (English) published the article "'Palpable to Thinking': Othello and Gross Conceits" in English Literary Renaissance. The article looks at the mathematical and magical understandings of the term "gross" during the Renaissance to argue that Shakespeare's play juggles with these concepts in its consideration of the tensions between abstraction and reality.
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