By William Shakespeare,Edward Pechter

ISBN-10: 039326422X

ISBN-13: 9780393264227

“I sought after an variation of Othello that had the required footnotes, historical past fabric, and a sensible choice of contemporary serious articles that might be obtainable to scholars and could spark category discussions. This was once it.”

—Deborah Montuori, Shippensburg University

This Norton severe version includes:

·The First Folio textual content (1623).

· An creation, explanatory footnotes, be aware at the textual content, and textual notes by way of Edward Pechter.

· Fifteen illustrations.

· Giraldi Cinthio’s sixteenth-century tale in its entirety, which Shakespeare used for either the plot and plenty of info of Othello.

· A beneficiant choice of interpretive responses to Othello from its origins to the current day, including—new to the Second

Edition—those through Stanley Cavell and Lois Potter. Edward Pechter’s renowned theatrical and important assessment of Othello has been considerably expanded.

· An up to date chosen Bibliography.

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