Othello. The Oxford Shakespeare
Written at some time between 1602 and 1604, Othello belongs to the period in which Shakespeare's powers as a tragic dramatist were at their peak. On stage, the romantic cast of its story and the remorseless drive of its plotting, combined with operatic extravagance of its emotion and the swelling music of its poetry, have made it amongst the most consistently successful of his tragedies; and numerous anecdotes testify to its extraordinary capacity to overwhelm the imagination of the audience. In recent times the play's bold treatment of love and marriage across the divide of race, has made it
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9780198129202, 0198129203
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""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Introduction""; ""Reception""; ""Sources""; ""Setting, Characters, and Plot""; ""The Time Scheme""; ""The Play in Performance""; ""Playing Black""; ""Othello and Iago""; ""Desdemona""; ""Emilia and Bianca""; ""Cassio and Roderigo""; ""Interpretation""; ""Reading Blackness""; ""�Othello� and Discovery""; ""�Othello� and the Monstrous""; ""Place, Office, and Occupation""; ""Love, Service, and Identity""; ""The Place of Women""; ""Conclusion""; ""Editorial Procedures""; ""Abbreviations and References"" ""THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE""""APPENDIX A: The Date of the Play""; ""APPENDIX B: The Texts of the Play""; ""The Textual Problem""; ""Quarto and Folio""; ""The Scholarly Debate""; ""Conclusion""; ""APPENDIX C: Giraldi Cinthio: �Gli Hecatommithi�, Third Decade, Seventh Novella Translated by Bruno Ferraro""; ""APPENDIX D: The Music in the Play by Linda Phyllis Austern""; ""APPENDIX E: Alterations to Lineation""; ""APPENDIX F: Longer Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R"" ""S""""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""