Othello

Revised Edition

William Shakespeare, E.A.J. Honigmann

• Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781472571762
• eBook ISBN: 9781472571793
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Shakespeare Drama
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover page
• Halftitle page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• The Editors
• Dedication
• CONTENTS
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
• GENERAL EDITORS’ PREFACE
• PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
• INTRODUCTION
• THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE
• LIST OF ROLES
• THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE
• LONGER NOTES
• APPENDIX 1 Date
• APPENDIX 2 The Textual Problem
• APPENDIX 3 Cinthio and Minor Sources
• APPENDIX 4 Edward Pudsey’s Extracts from Othello
• APPENDIX 5 Musical Settings for Songs in Othello
• ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCES
• INDEX