Othello (Signet Classics)

Beskrivning

Titel: Othello
Författare: William Shakespeare
Förlag: The New American Library/Signet Classics
Utgivningsår: 1963
Språk: Engelska
Bandtyp: Pocket
Skick: Mycket gott skick – gulnad rygg och omslag; små hanteringsspår; något gulnade snitt.

Othello (The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603. It is based on the story Un Capitano Moro (A Moorish Captain) by Cinthio (a disciple of Boccaccio’s), first published in 1565. The story revolves around its two central characters: Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army, and his treacherous ensign, Iago.

Given its varied and enduring themes of racism, love, jealousy, betrayal, revenge, and repentance, Othello is still often performed in professional and community theatre alike, and has been the source for numerous operatic, film, and literary adaptations.

Unique features of the Signet edition – Special Introduction to the play by the editor, Alvin Kernan, Yale University; General discussion of Shakespeare’s life, world, and theater by the general editor of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University; Source from which Shakespeare derived Othello – a story from Giraldi Cinthio’s Hecatommithi; Dramatic criticism from the past and present: commentaries by Thomas Rymer, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Maynard Mack, Robert B. Heilman; Text and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable type; Name of each speaker given in full; Detailed footnotes at the bottom of each page of the play keyed to the numbered lines of the text; Textual note; Extensive bibliography.