"Othello"

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Jealousy, Deception, and Tragedy

"Othello" is a captivating tragedy that explores complex human emotions such as jealousy and deception. This edition offers valuable insight into the play's history and provides detailed commentary notes to aid readers in understanding the text. The contemporary resonances of the language used also make the play relevant to modern-day readers. Overall, "Othello" is a must-read for lovers of tragedy and Shakespearean literature.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

"Othello"

Regular price $12.99
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ISBN: 9780174434641
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: $42.93
Date of Publication: 1996-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Poetry, Drama
Related Topics: Literature, Classics, Theatre
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This edition of "Othello" aims to shed light on the text of the play as we have come to know it, and on our knowledge of its early history. The professional malpractices of the publisher of the Quarto, as described in documents in the Public Record Office, and the professional zeal of the Folio scribe, who wished to tidy and correct Shakespeare's manuscript, introduced many plausible but post-Shakespearean readings into the text, which call into question a number of our assumptions about the play. As well as investigating the implications of these findings about the early texts, the editor offers a wider background to the play, discussing major critical issues, the play in performance and the relationship between reading and seeing it, and topics such as its date, sources, the famous conundrum of "double time", and its "greatness" compared with "Hamlet" and "King Lear". Commentary notes assist the reader's understanding of the text in detail; many are concerned with the contemporary resonances of its language.
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"Othello" is a captivating tragedy that explores complex human emotions such as jealousy and deception. This edition offers valuable insight into the play's history and provides detailed commentary notes to aid readers in understanding the text. The contemporary resonances of the language used also make the play relevant to modern-day readers. Overall, "Othello" is a must-read for lovers of tragedy and Shakespearean literature.

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