The third New Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's Othello, updated by Christina Luckyj for the contemporary student reader.
This study is a major exercise in the historicisation of Othello in which the author examines contemporary writings and demonstrates how they were embedded in the text of Othello: discourse about conflict between Turk and Venetian treatises ...
–BRUCE R. SMITH, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA lthough other Shakespeare plays offer higher body counts, more gore, and more plentiful scenes of heartbreak, Othello packs an unusually powerful affective punch, stunning us with its ...
This edition of Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett's muscular, radically adapted text also features articles and interviews about the production and Frantic Assembly's revolutionary work.
Instead he riveted viewers' attention by means of the psychological intensity that informed the minutest details of his meticulously observed performance: his hoarding of '[a] little 1 Michael Billington, Guardian, 11 May 1984; ...
Shakespeare creates a powerful drama with the story of a marriage between the exotic Moor, Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona.
With a foreword by the renowned critic Fred Moten, this edition is the first of its kind and puts Othello’s blackness and interiority front and center, forcing us to confront the complex world that ultimately dooms him.
In the board game 'Othello', players must turn double-sided counters to their advantage.
It’s a gripping drama that details the dangers of greed, envy and their inescapable consequences. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Othello is both modern and readable.
If anything, Othello has increased its stature as one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies ever since it was first written, between 1603 and 1604, due to the victimisation suffered by its tragic hero, Othello, as a result of his skin colour.
Her words simultaneously suggest a military action—complete with violence, storming, and trumpeting—and unruly Nature herself: “That I did love the Moor to live with him, / My downright violence and storm of fortunes / May trumpet to ...