Othello
William Shakespeare (Author), E. A. J. Honigmann (Editor), Ayanna Thompson (Writer of introduction)
"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. Othello is one of Shakespeare's great tragedies-written in the same five-year period as Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. The new introduction attends to the play's different meanings throughout history, while articulating the historical context in which Othello was created, paying particular attention to Shakespeare's source materials and the evidence about early modern constructions of racial and religious difference. It also explores the life of the play in different historical moments, demonstrating how meanings and performances develop, accrue, and metamorphose over time. The volume provides a rich and current resource, making this best-selling play edition ideal for today's students at advanced school and undergraduate level."-- Provided by publisher
eBook, English, 2016
Revised edition View all formats and editions
Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, London, UK, 2016
Drama
1 online resource (xvii, 429 pages) : illustrations, music
9781472571793, 9781472571786, 1472571797, 1472571789
1152977050
Introduction1. Early Modern Contexts: Sources, Peoples, and Places2. Genre3. Sex, Love, and Objects4. Othello and Scholarly Debates; 5. Othello Onstage, Part 1: Stage Histories6. Othello Onstage, Part 2: Black Actors, White Actresses7. Othello Onstage, Part 3: Othello in the World8. Othello: Restaged/Rewritten; OthelloAppendicesBibliographyIndex
Previous edition: 1997