Othello (Shakespeare, William, Works.) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William; Ridley, M R; Honigmann, E. A. J.

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9780174434641: Othello (Shakespeare, William, Works.)

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ISBN 10: 0174434642 ISBN 13: 9780174434641

Publisher: Arden Shakespeare, 1993

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This edition of "Othello" aims to shed light on the text of the play as we have come to know it, and on our knowledge of its early history. The professional malpractices of the publisher of the Quarto, as described in documents in the Public Record Office, and the professional zeal of the Folio scribe, who wished to tidy and correct Shakespeare's manuscript, introduced many plausible but post-Shakespearean readings into the text, which call into question a number of our assumptions about the play. As well as investigating the implications of these findings about the early texts, the editor offers a wider background to the play, discussing major critical issues, the play in performance and the relationship between reading and seeing it, and topics such as its date, sources, the famous conundrum of "double time", and its "greatness" compared with "Hamlet" and "King Lear". Commentary notes assist the reader's understanding of the text in detail; many are concerned with the contemporary resonances of its language.

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"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""

About the Author:

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.

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