Overview
The Annotated Shakespeare Series allows readers to fully understand and enjoy the rich plays of the world’s greatest dramatist ""A drama . . . get[s] Yale’s red-carpet treatment.""—Library Journal One of the most powerful dramas ever written for the stage, Othello is a story of revenge, illusion, passion, mistrust, jealousy, and murder. If in Iago Shakespeare created the most compelling villain in Western literature, in Othello and Desdemona he gave us our most tragic and unforgettable lovers. This extensively annotated version of Othello makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary, pronunciation, and prosody and provides alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations give readers all the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations. In his introduction, Raffel delves into the interpretive disagreement over Othello's origins and provides an analysis of the characters Desdemona and Iago. In a concluding essay, Harold Bloom engages our attraction to both power and tragedy in his discussion of Iago, Shakespeare's ""radical invention.""
Full Product Details
Author: William Shakespeare ,
Burton Raffel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Imprint: Yale University Press
Edition: annotated edition
Dimensions:
Width: 12.70cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 19.70cm
Weight: 0.263kg
ISBN: 9780300108071
ISBN 10: 0300108079
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 November 2005
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
A drama . . . get[s] Yale's red-carpet treatment. --Library Journal Selected for Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2006 Selected as a 2005 outstanding book by Association of American University Presses (AAUP) University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries Featured at American Library Association (ALA) as one of the Best of the Best from the University Presses: Books you should know about.
A drama . . . get[s] Yale's red-carpet treatment. -Library Journal Selected for Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2006 Selected as a 2005 outstanding book by Association of American University Presses (AAUP) University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries Featured at American Library Association (ALA) as one of the Best of the Best from the University Presses: Books you should know about.
“A drama . . . get[s] Yale’s red-carpet treatment.”—Library Journal Selected for Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2006 Selected as a 2005 outstanding book by Association of American University Presses (AAUP) University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries Featured at American Library Association (ALA) as one of the “Best of the Best from the University Presses: Books you should know about”
A drama . . . get[s] Yale's red-carpet treatment. --Library Journal
Author Information
Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities Emeritus and Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Among his many edited and translated publications are Poems and Prose from the Old English, Cliges, Lancelot, Perceval, Erec and Enide and Yvain, all published by Yale University Press. Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University, is the author of many books, including The Western Canon, Shakespeare - The Invention of the Human and Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
