Othello : authoritative text, textual sources and cultural contexts, criticism / William Shakespeare ; edited by Edward Pechter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.

Contributor:

Pechter, Edward, 1941- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Norton critical edition

A Norton critical edition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Othello (Fictitious character from Shakespeare)--Drama.

Othello.

Othello (Fictitious character from Shakespeare).

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello.

Shakespeare, William.

Interracial marriage--Drama.

Interracial marriage.

Jealousy--Drama.

Jealousy.

Muslims--Drama.

Muslims.

Genre:

Drama.

Tragedies.

Physical Description:

xv, 400 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2017]

Summary:

"This book is a substantial revision of the Norton Critical Othello published in 2004. Beginning with a new Preface, it reprints Shakespeare's tragedy based on the First Folio text of 1623, with modified and expanded explanatory notes reflecting recent scholarly and critical discussion. A section on "Textual Sources and Cultural Contexts" includes a translation of the sixteenth-century Italian novella from which Shakespeare took his narrative and main characters, along with the essay on "Othello in its Own Time," considering race and gender among other topics, and newly designed, in conjunction with added images, to highlight the focus on Islam and religious difference in current work on the play. A section on "Criticism" begins with a comprehensive overview of response to Othello from earliest times to the present, followed by a generous selection of exemplary excerpts, with special attention paid to theatrical performance. The book ends with suggestions for further study in the form of fifteen annotated bibliographical lists on topics ranging from Renaissance travel writing and romance to movie and video versions of the play."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Text of Othello

The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice 1

A Note on the Text 3

The Text and Editorial Procedures 125

Textual, Notes 133

Textual Sources and Cultural Contexts

Othello in its Own Time 139

[The Moor of Venice] / Giraldi Cinthio Cinthio, Giraldi 174

Criticism

Othello in Theatrical and Critical History 187

["A Bloody Farce"] / Thomas Rymer Rymer, Thomas 227

[Comments on Rymer's Othello] / Charles Gildon Gildon, Charles 236

[Shakespeare, the Rules, and Othello] / Samuel Johnson Johnson, Samuel 242

[Othello's Color: Theatrical versus Literary Representation] / Charles Lamb Lamb, Charles 247

[Iago, Heroic Tragedy, and Othello] / William Hazlitt Hazlitt, William 248

[Comments on Othello] / Samuel Taylor Coleridge Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 256

["The Most Painfully Exciting and the Most Terrible" of Shakespeare's Tragedies] / A. C. Bradley Bradley, A. C. 261

["The Last Great Speech of Othello"] / T S. Eliot Eliot, T S. 270

Othello: An Essay to Illustrate a Method / Kenneth Burke Burke, Kenneth 271

Othello and Colour Prejudice / G. K. Hunter Hunter, G. K. 275

Epistemology and Tragedy: A Reading of Othello / Stanley Cavell Cavell, Stanley 289

"Nay, That's Not Next": Othello, V.ii in Performance, 1760-1900 / James R. Siemon Siemon, James R. 297

Unproper Beds: Race, Adultery, and the Hideous in Othello / Michael Neill Neill, Michael 314

Charivari and the Comedy of Abjection in Othello / Michael D. Bristol Bristol, Michael D. 338

[Five Modern Productions] / Lois Potter Potter, Lois 354.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780393264227

039326422X

OCLC:

966821663