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Othello: Revised Edition de Professor Ayanna Thompson

Othello: Revised Edition: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

Introducere de Professor Ayanna Thompson Editat de E. A. J. Honigmann Autor William Shakespeare
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 feb 2016

Observăm că această ediție a tragediei Othello, publicată de Dover Publications Inc. în seria Dover Thrift Editions, transformă textul clasic într-un instrument de lucru esențial prin ancorarea directă a teoriei literare în contextul istoric al epocii. Aplicabilitatea practică a volumului rezidă în capacitatea sa de a explica nu doar intriga, ci și mecanismele sociale ale Angliei elisabetane care au influențat scriitura lui William Shakespeare. Structura cărții este riguros organizată: după o introducere biografică și o analiză a teatrului shakespearian, textul piesei este susținut de două anexe fundamentale (Appendix A și B) care explorează sursele literare primare, precum Cinthio, și documente rare, cum sunt scrisorile Reginei Elisabeta I privind deportările. Subliniem că acest aparat critic oferă o progresie logică de la narațiunea propriu-zisă la înțelegerea profundă a temelor de rasism și politică externă. Reținem că această versiune reprezintă o alternativă viabilă la The Oxford Shakespeare: Othello pentru cursurile de literatură universală, cu avantajul unui format compact și al unei selecții de documente de arhivă care facilitează cercetarea interdisciplinară. În contextul operei autorului, Othello se situează în perioada marilor tragedii, fiind o piesă mult mai concentrată pe psihologia domestică și pe distrugerea intimității față de natura politică a lucrării Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 sau elementele fantastice din The Tempest.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472571779
ISBN-10: 1472571770
Pagini: 448
Ilustrații: 20 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:2nd Revised edition
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția The Arden Shakespeare
Seria The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această ediție studenților și pasionaților de dramaturgie care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile istorice ale tensiunilor rasiale și sociale din opera lui Shakespeare. Cititorul câștigă acces la documente de epocă și analize comparative care explică transformarea lui Othello dintr-un erou militar într-o victimă a manipulării. Este o resursă academică accesibilă, ideală pentru pregătirea examenelor de literatură engleză sau pentru analiza spectacolelor de teatru contemporane.

Despre autor

William Shakespeare (1564–1616), supranumit „Bardul din Avon”, este considerat cel mai important dramaturg al lumii. Cariera sa în Londra, ca actor și proprietar al companiei „King’s Men”, a coincis cu o perioadă de efervescență culturală fără precedent. Deși a început cu comedii și drame istorice, maturitatea sa artistică este definită de marile tragedii scrise între 1590 și 1613. Opera sa, care include 38 de piese și 154 de sonete, a fost publicată postum în ediția „First Folio” (1623). Shakespeare rămâne un punct de referință universal, textele sale fiind adaptate constant în cinematografie și operă.

Descriere

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 racial and religious difference. It also explores the life of the play in different historical moments, demonstrating how meanings and performances develop, accrue, and metamorphose over time.

The volume provides a rich and current resource, making this best-selling play edition ideal for today's students at advanced school and undergraduate level.

Cuprins

Introduction
1. Early Modern Contexts: Sources, Peoples, and Places
2. Genre
3. Sex, Love, and Objects
4. Othello and Scholarly Debates;
5. Othello Onstage, Part 1: Stage Histories
6. Othello Onstage, Part 2: Black Actors, White Actresses
7. Othello Onstage, Part 3: Othello in the World
8. Othello: Restaged/Rewritten;

Othello

Appendices
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

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 students and academics alike will find useful for years to come . The superb introduction . opens new avenues of research and frames the play in ways that bring it up to date with the latest scholarship.
By far and away the best edition of this play that I've read for use in the classroom. Thompson's introduction is impeccably well judged, and hits the ground running with precisely the kinds of generic and moral concerns that are so fruitful in tutorial- and/or seminar-based discussion. The illustrations are well chosen ... and the exploration of 'moorishness' in its myriad manifestations is exemplary. The balance of annotation to text is also well done, and I have no reservations or hesitations at all about requiring students to read this enriching and vibrant edition.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

One of the greatest of Shakespeare's tragedies, Othello tells the story of a Moorish general in command of the armed forces of Venice who earns the enmity of his ensign Iago by passing him over for a promotion. Partly for revenge and partly out of pure evil, Iago plots to convince Othello that Desdemona, his wife, has been unfaithful to him.
Iago succeeds in his evil aims only too well, for the enraged Othello murders Desdemona. When Othello later learns of her innocence, he takes his own life. Bleak and unsparing, this play offers a stunning portrait of an arch-villain and an astute psychological study of the nature of evil.

Notă biografică

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23. The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse. He was one of eight children born to John Shakespeare, a merchant of some standing in his community. William probably went to the King’s New School in Stratford, but he had no university education. In November 1582, at the age of eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior, who was pregnant with their first child, Susanna. She was born on May 26, 1583. Twins, a boy, Hamnet ( who would die at age eleven), and a girl, Judith, were born in 1585. By 1592 Shakespeare had gone to London working as an actor and already known as a playwright. A rival dramatist, Robert Greene, referred to him as “an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers.” Shakespeare became a principal shareholder and playwright of the successful acting troupe, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men (later under James I, called the King’s Men). In 1599 the Lord Chamberlain’s Men built and occupied the Globe Theater in Southwark near the Thames River. Here many of Shakespeare’s plays were performed by the most famous actors of his time, including Richard Burbage, Will Kempe, and Robert Armin. In addition to his 37 plays, Shakespeare had a hand in others, including Sir Thomas More and The Two Noble Kinsmen, and he wrote poems, including Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. His 154 sonnets were published, probably without his authorization, in 1609. In 1611 or 1612 he gave up his lodgings in London and devoted more and more time to retirement in Stratford, though he continued writing such plays as The Tempest and Henry VII until about 1613. He died on April 23 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford. No collected edition of his plays was published during his life-time, but in 1623 two members of his acting company, John Heminges and Henry Condell, put together the great collection now called the First Folio.