Description
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.Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
Published: 04/07/2016
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781472571762
ISBN10: 1472571762
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | Shakespeare
- Literary Criticism | Shakespeare
About the Author
Ayanna Thompson is Professor of English Literature at George Washington University, USA and author of several books about Shakespeare and race.
E. A. J. Honigmann was Joseph Cowen Professor of English Literature at the Universty of Newcastle, UK.