...rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven. It was my hint to speak — such was the process; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders. (Othello 1.3, 128^5) As if this were a checklist of exotic commonplaces,...

...Othello's words — as in the words of any other Western traveler — is reduced to a land populated by "the Cannibals that each other eat / The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads / Do grow beneath their shoulders" (1.3.142-43). Rather than reveal Othello's origins, his tale demonstrates,...

...Literature of Travel and the Idea of the South Seas (Oxford, 1995) 78. Chapter 7 Charles Clerke Two And of the cannibals that each other eat, The anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear Would Desdemona seriously incline; ... and with a greedy...

...quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven It was my hint to speak - such was my process And of the cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders. [I, iii, 141-146] 131 Othello's conclusion ('She loved me for the dangers...

...south is the deepest interior of Africa, for Emin, Menschenfresser country, the realm of Othello's "Cannibals that each other eat / The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads / Do grow beneath their shoulders." Where men who eat men do not beset this country, it's the forbidden...

...vast and deserts idle," "rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven," and peopled with "the Cannibals that each other eat / The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads / Do grow beneath their shoulders" (1.3.167, 140-41, 143-45). Othello's words here directly echo Pory's...