Tragedy of Othello : The Moor of Venice

by Shakespeare, William

• ISBN13: 9780451526854
• ISBN10: 0451526856
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: PENGUIN

Summary

Unique features include an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of Signet Classic Shakespeare series, plus a special introduction to the play by the editor Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. This book contains information on the source from which Shakespeare derived "Othello"--selections from Giraldi Cinthio's "Hecatommithi." Special introduction by Alvin Kernan, Princeton University.

Table of Contents

Shakespeare: An Overview	p. vii
Biographical Sketch	p. vii
A Note on the Anti-Stratfordians, Especially Baconians and Oxfordians	p. xi
The Shakespeare Canon	p. xv
Shakespeare's English	p. xviii
Shakespeare's Theater	p. xxvi
A Note on the Use of Boy Actors in Female Roles	p. xxxiii
Shakespeare's Dramatic Language: Costumes, Gestures and Silences; Prose and Poetry	p. xxxvi
The Play Test as a Collaboration	p. xliii
Editing Texts	p. xlix
Shakespeare on the Stage	p. liv
Introduction	p. lxiii
The Tragedy of Othello	p. 1
Textual Note	p. 129
The Source of Othello	p. 134
Selection from Hecatommithi	p. 134
Commentaries	p. 147
Othello	p. 149
The Jacobean Shakespeare: Some Observations on the Construction of the Tragedies	p. 152
"I wooed thee with my sword": Shakespeare's Tragic Paradigms	p. 188
Othello in Vienna, 1991	p. 211
Othello on Stage and Screen	p. 217
Suggested References	p. 233
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