In Othello , Shakespeare creates powerful drama from a marriage between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona that begins with elopement and mutual devotion and ends with jealous rage and death. Shakespeare builds many differences into his hero and heroine,...
Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. In this edition of Othello, illustrations have been...
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William Shakespeare's classic play Othello, featuring valuable tools for educators and readers, from the esteemed Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works. In Othello, William Shakespeare creates...
Experience the heart-wrenching tragedy of Othello with this pocket-sized edition. Shakespeare's powerful exploration of jealousy, manipulation, and the destructive power of suspicion can now be carried with you, offering profound insights into the complexities of human nature...
The Annotated Shakespeare Series allows readers to fully understand and enjoy the rich plays of the world's greatest dramatist "A drama . . . get s] Yale's red-carpet treatment."--Library Journal One of the most powerful dramas ever written...
This edition of Othello is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including...
Shakespeare's tragic tale of the Venetian general, Othello.
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
-The First Folio text (1623).
- An introduction, explanatory footnotes, note on the text, and textual notes by Edward Pechter.
- Fifteen illustrations.
- Giraldi Cinthio's sixteenth-century story in its entirety, which Shakespeare...
The New York Theater Workshop's production of Othello, starring Daniel Craig and David Oyelowo, and directed by Tony award-winning director Sam Gold, opened in November 2016. This production was sponsored in part by The Pelican Shakespeare series and Penguin...
Along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. What distinguishes Othello is its bold treatment of racial and gender themes. It is also the only tragedy to feature a main character, Iago, who truly seems evil, betraying and deceiving...
Othello, the general of the Venetian army, holds much power and influence but becomes the target of an insidious plot to steal his coveted position. He is overcome with paranoia and enthralled with rumors of his wife's potential infidelity. Othello has fallen...
This second edition of Othello has a new, illustrated introduction by leading American scholar Ayanna Thompson, which addresses such key issues as race, religion and gender, as well as looking at ways in which the play has been adapted in more recent times.