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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393976157
ISBN-139780393976151
eBay Product ID (ePID)578895
Product Key Features
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameOthello
Publication Year2003
SubjectEuropean / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Drama
AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
SeriesNorton Critical Editions Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight14.7 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2003-054117
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number0
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal822.3/3
Synopsis"Sources and Contexts" reprints the sixteenth-century story by Giraldi Cinthio that Shakespeare used for the plot of Othello and for many of its details. Edward Pechter's essay provides context for readers through its discussion of the play's central topics--Moors, Turks, Venetians, marriage and domesticity, fathers and daughters, and female sexuality. Seventeen wide-ranging interpretive essays are reprinted. Contributors include Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, T. S. Eliot, Kenneth Burke, Lynda E. Boose, Mark Rose, and Patricia Parker. An annotated Selected Bibliography is also included., The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the First Folio, printed in 1623. Additions and emendations adopted from the First Quarto (1622) appear in the Textual Notes that follow the play. Othello is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations., Seventeen wide-ranging interpretive essays are reprinted. Contributors include Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, T. S. Eliot, Kenneth Burke, Lynda E. Boose, Mark Rose, and Patricia Parker. An annotated Selected Bibliography is also included.