Othello: Revised Edition

Author:   Professor Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University, USA) ,  E.A.J. Honigmann ,  William Shakespeare
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition:   Revised Edition
Volume:   3
ISBN:  

9781472571779


Pages:   448
Publication Date:   25 February 2016
Format:   Hardback
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This second edition of Othello has a new, illustrated introduction by leading American scholar Ayanna Thompson, which addresses such key issues as race, religion and gender, as well as looking at ways in which the play has been adapted in more recent times. Othello is one of Shakespeare’s great tragedies—written in the same five-year period as Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. The new introduction attends to the play’s different meanings throughout history, while articulating the historical context in which Othello was created, paying particular attention to Shakespeare’s source materials and the evidence about early modern constructions of racial and religious difference. It also explores the life of the play in different historical moments, demonstrating how meanings and performances develop, accrue, and metamorphose over time. The volume provides a rich and current resource, making this best-selling play edition ideal for today's students at advanced school and undergraduate level.

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Author:   Professor Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University, USA) ,  E.A.J. Honigmann ,  William Shakespeare
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   The Arden Shakespeare
Edition:   Revised Edition
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.572kg
ISBN:  

9781472571779


ISBN 10:   1472571770
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   25 February 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Early Modern Contexts: Sources, Peoples, and Places 2. Genre 3. Sex, Love, and Objects 4. Othello and Scholarly Debates; 5. Othello Onstage, Part 1: Stage Histories 6. Othello Onstage, Part 2: Black Actors, White Actresses 7. Othello Onstage, Part 3: Othello in the World 8. Othello: Restaged/Rewritten; Othello Appendices Bibliography Index

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The new introduction for the revised edition of Othello by Ayanna Thompson is a welcome reconsideration of the 1997 original Arden3 edition ... Thompson's introduction recognizes and incorporates the vast critical world of early modern race studies that has developed in the past twenty years ... [It] is wide-ranging yet absolutely clear, providing a new frame for the play that students and academics alike will find useful for years to come ... The superb introduction ... opens new avenues of research and frames the play in ways that bring it up to date with the latest scholarship. * Sixteenth Century Journal *


Scholars and students alike will appreciate Thompson's reframing of the play in terms of the most current scholarly debates about genre, race, and sexuality, as well as her thorough and up-to-date account of the play's stage history. * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *


Author Information

Ayanna Thompson is Professor of English Literature at George Washington University, USA and author of several books about Shakespeare and race. E. A. J. Honigmann was Joseph Cowen Professor of English Literature at the Universty of Newcastle, UK.

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