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The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice

The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice - Paperback

by William Shakespeare
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Availability:In StockContributor:William Shakespeare, Barbara a. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor)Series:Folger Shakespeare LibraryAudience:Ages 9-12Publish date:2017-06-13Pages:416
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9781501146299ISBN-10:1501146297UPC:9781501146299Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:Shakespeare, EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC82Z2VCTE
William Shakespeare's classic play Othello, featuring valuable tools for educators and readers, from the esteemed Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works.

In Othello, William Shakespeare creates powerful drama from a marriage between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona that begins with elopement and mutual devotion and ends with jealous rage and death. Shakespeare builds many differences into his hero and heroine, including race, age, and cultural background. Yet most readers and audiences believe the couple's strong love would overcome these differences were it not for Iago, who sets out to destroy Othello. Iago's false insinuations about Desdemona's infidelity draw Othello into his schemes, and Desdemona is subjected to Othello's horrifying verbal and physical assaults.

The authoritative edition of Othello from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes:

--Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play

--Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play

--Scene-by-scene plot summaries

--A key to famous lines and phrases

--An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language

--Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books

--An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9781501146299ISBN-10:1501146297UPC:9781501146299Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:Shakespeare, EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC82Z2VCTE
William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England's Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children--an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare's only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare's working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

Barbara A. Mowat is Director of Research emerita at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Consulting Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, and author of The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare's Romances and of essays on Shakespeare's plays and their editing.

Paul Werstine is Professor of English at the Graduate School and at King's University College at Western University. He is a general editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare and author of Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare and of many papers and articles on the printing and editing of Shakespeare's plays.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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William Shakespeare, Barbara a. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor)

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William Shakespeare

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