This is the first scholarly edition of Othello to give full attention to the play's bold treatment of racial themes. Designed to meet the needs of theatre professionals, the edition includes an extensive performance history, a commentary illuminating the complexities of Shakespeare's language, and appendices on music in the play and a full translation of the Italian novella from which the story derives.
As You Like It is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.
THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE STATE OF PLAY SERIES General Editors: Lena Cowen Orlin and Ann Thompson Macbeth: The State of Play, edited by Ann Thompson Othello: The State of Play, edited by Lena Cowen Orlin Further titles in preparation ...
In the board game 'Othello', players must turn double-sided counters to their advantage.
... Stratford-upon-Avon, the Last Residence of Shakespeare (London: Printed by J. E. Adlard, 1864), 222–34; Schoen- baum, Shakespeare's Lives, 108–9, 125. Abigail Adams told a grandson in 1815 that she still had the sliver of wood.
Blits, Jan H., 'Manliness and Friendship in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar' Interpretation 9 (1981), 155–67. ... Bristol, Michael D., 'The Two Noble Kinsmen: Shakespeare and the Problem of Authority', in Charles H. Frey, ed., Shakespeare, ...
This book offers an engaging account of the portrayal of outsiders in Shakespeare's writings.
Shakespeare's tragedies contain an astonishing variety of suffering, from suicides and murders to dismemberments and grief. Stanley Wells considers how the bard's tragic plays drew on the literary and theatrical conventions of his time.
De France takes a subtle and complex view of courtly love, whether telling the story of the knight who betrays his fairy mistress or describing the noblewoman who embroiders her sad tale on the shroud for a nightingale killed by a jealous ...
This edition offers a newly edited text and an exceptionally helpful and critically aware introduction.
Othello -- Oxford School Edition