Othello (Arden Shakespeare.Third Series)

Othello (Arden Shakespeare.Third Series)

by William Shakespeare (Author), William Shakespeare (Author), E. A. J. Honigmann (Editor)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 409
Edition: 3
Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare
Published: 14 Feb 2001

ISBN 10: 1903436451
ISBN 13: 9781903436455

Media Reviews
Honigmann's extensive knowledge illuminates this play at every turn, making this the best edition of Othello now available. --Brian Vickers, Review of English Studies
Honigmann's extensive knowledge illuminates this play at every turn, making this the best edition of Othello now available. Brian Vickers, Review of English Studies
Author Bio

E. A. J. Honigmann is the author of more than a dozen books on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, including Shakespeare: Seven Tragedies: The Dramatist's Manipulation of Response, and Myriad-Minded Shakespeare. He has taught as a lecturer at Glasgow University, as a Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon (Birmingham University), as Joseph Cowen Professor of English Literature in the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and in Canada and the United States. His The Texts of 'Othello' and Shakespearian Revision is a companion volume to this Arden edition.