Othello /

This revised edition of Othello has a new 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. The new introduction attends to the play's differ...

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Main Author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (Author)
Other Authors: Honigmann, E. A. J. (Editor), Thompson, Ayanna, 1972- (Author of introduction, etc.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:London, UK : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2016.
©1997.
Edition:Revised edition.
Series:Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Works. 1995.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. What is Othello?: Genre ; Where is Othello?: Early modern contexts ; Othello and the audience ; Making objects pornographic in Othello ; Othello and scholarly debates ; Othello onstage, part 1: Stage histories ; Othello onstage, part 2: Black actors, white actresses ; Othello onstage, part 3: Othello in the world ; Othello: Restaged/rewritten
  • The Tradedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice
  • Appendices. 1. Date ; 2. The textual problem ; 3. Cinthio and minor sources ; 4. Edward Pudsey's extracts from Othello ; 5. Musical settings for songs in Othello.