William Shakespeare's Othello
A guide to reading "Othello" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.
Designed to provide insight and an overview about each text for students and teachers, these guides endeavor to develop knowledge and understanding rather than just provide answers and summaries.
showed the upturned dead faces of Othello and Desdemona lying side by side on their funeral cortege as it moved slowly down the Cyprian fortifications, silhouetted against the sky and sea.76 They were beautiful faces, at peace now, ...
This volume is a broad-ranging guide to Othello, providing an introduction to the contexts of the play, the range of critical responses to the play and the play in performance.