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“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.

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Edward Pechter is Professor Of English at Victoria University. He is the author of Othello and Interpretive Traditions, What Was Shakespeare? Renaissance Plays and Changing Critical Practice, and Dryden's Classical Theory of Literature. He is editor of Textual and Theatrical Shakespeare: Questions of Evidence.

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