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Othello
Shakespeare
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Description for Othello
paperback. Series: The Arden Shakespeare. Num Pages: 448 pages, 20 bw illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 201 x 24. Weight in Grams: 478.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Condition
New
Series
The Arden Shakespeare
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472571762
SKU
9781472571762
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Ref
99-1
About Shakespeare
Ayanna Thompson is Professor of English Literature at George Washington University, USA and author of several books about Shakespeare and race. E. A. J. Honigmann was Joseph Cowen Professor of English Literature at the Universty of Newcastle, UK.
Reviews for Othello
The new introduction for the revised edition of Othello by Ayanna Thompson is a welcome reconsideration of the 1997 original Arden3 edition ... Thompson's introduction recognizes and incorporates the vast critical world of early modern race studies that has developed in the past twenty years ... [It] is wide-ranging yet absolutely clear, providing a new frame for the play that ... Read more