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Othello: Collins Classroom Classics

Autor William Shakespeare Editat de Peter Alexander
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2021 – vârsta de la 15 ani

This edition of Othello is perfect for students, with the complete play in an accessible format, on-page notes, introduction setting the context, timeline, character and theme indexes. Demystify vocabulary with notes on the page and concise commentary. Set the scene with perfectly pitched introductions that introduce key contexts, concerns and stylistic features, and examine different performances and interpretations. Recall plot summaries at the beginning of each scene. Help with social, historical and literary context with the bespoke timeline of Shakespeare's life and times.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780008400460
ISBN-10: 0008400466
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 110 x 171 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Harper Collins, UK
Seria Collins Classroom Classics


Notă biografică

William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest playwright the world has seen. He produced an astonishing amount of work; 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 5 poems. He died on 23rd April 1616, aged 52, and was buried in the Holy Trinity Church, Stratford.


Descriere

Exam board: AQA & Edexcel (A Level) , WJEC & Eduqas (GCSE)Level & Subject: A Level, GCSE 9-1 English LiteratureFirst teaching: September 2015First examination: June 2017


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.

Recenzii

Although other Shakespeare plays offer higher body counts, more gore, and more plentiful scenes of heartbreak, Othello packs an unusually powerful affective punch, stunning us with its depiction of the swiftness and thoroughness with which love can be converted to hatred, and forcing us to confront our complicity with social and political institutions that can put all of us—but especially the most vulnerable among us—at risk.
This edition features a variety of interleaved materials—from maps and manuscripts to illustrations and extended discussions of myth and politics—that provide a context for the social and cultural allusions in the play. Appendices offer excerpts from Shakespeare’s key sources and historical materials on marriage, jealousy, and the treatment of people of African descent in Renaissance England.
A collaboration between Broadview Press and the Internet Shakespeare Editions project at the University of Victoria, the editions developed for this series have been comprehensively annotated and draw on the authoritative texts newly edited for the ISE. This innovative series allows readers to access extensive and reliable online resources linked to the print edition.

The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice has found here its ideal edition for our times. In addition to Jessica Slight’s unfussy and accessible text, the Broadview/Internet Shakespeare Edition offers an up-to-date selection of images, sources, analogs, and historical readings, many of them not seen before in connection with Othello. Race, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, household governance, and early modern psychology receive broad and deep attention, inviting readers to encounter Shakespeare’s play in strikingly contemporary terms.” — Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California

Cuprins

FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
SHAKESPEARE’S LIFE
SHAKESPEARE’S THEATER
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND OTHELLO
A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY
THE DATE OF THE PLAY
A NOTE ON THE TEXT
THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE
APPENDIX A: SOURCES AND EARLY ANALOGS
  1. From Cinthio, Gli Heccatommithi (1565)
  2. From Geoffrey Fenton, Certain Tragical Discourses (1567)
  3. From George Peele, The Battle of Alcazar (1588–89)
  4. From Robert Greene, Selimus (1594)
  5. From William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus (1594)
  6. From William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnets 57 and 58 (1609)
  7. From Thomas Coryate, Coryats Crudities (1611)
  8. From Maurice G. Dowling, Othello Travestie (1836)
APPENDIX B: CULTURAL CONTEXTS
  1. Prayers for Protection against Ottoman Attacks
      a. A form to be used in common prayer (1565)
      b. Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury,A form to be used in common prayer (1566)
  2. Elizabeth I, Letters Permitting Deportation of Blackamoors from England (1596–97)
      a. 11 July 1596
      b. 18 July 1596
  3. From Robert Cleaver, A Godly Form of Household Government for the Ordering of Private Families (1598)
  4. From Thomas Wright, The Passions of the Mind in General (1604)
  5. From Ste[phen?] B., Counsel to the Husband: To the Wife Instruction (1608)
  6. From Nicholas Coeffeteau, “Of Jealousy, Whether it Be an Effect and Sign of Love” (1621)
WORKS CITED AND BIBLIOGRAPHY