Othello

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An international team of scholars offers:?? modernised, easily accessible texts?? ample but unobtrusive academic guidance?? attention to the theatrical qualities of each play and its stage history?? informative illustations, including reconstructions of early performances --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

William Shakespeare lived between 1552-1616, but his work endures and is enjoyed the world over. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

Shakespeare: An Overview vii
  Biographical Sketch vii / A Note on the Anti-StraOordians,
  Especially Baconians and Oxfordians xi / The Shakespeare
  Canon xv / Shakespeare's English xviii / Shakespeare's
  Theater xxvi / A Note on the Use of Boy Actors in Female
  Roles xxxiii / Shakespeare's Dramatic Language: Cos-
  tumes, Gestures and Silences; Prose and Poetry xxxvi / The
  Play Text as a Collaboration xliii / Editing Texts xlix !
  Shakespeare on the Stage liv
Introduction lxiii
The Tragedy of Othello
Textual Note
The Source of Othello
  GIRALDI CINTHIO  Selection from Hecat0mmithi 1
Commentaries 147
  SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE  Othello
  MAYNARD MACK  The Jacobean Shakespeare: Some Ob-
     servations on the Construction of the Tragedies
  MADELON GOHLKE SPRENGNETHER  "I wooed thee with
     my sword": Shakespeare's Tragic Paradigms
  MARVIN CARLSON  Othello in Vienna, 1991
  SYLVAN BARNET  Othello on Stage and Screen
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