Othello

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

See the chapter on Othello in this e-book.

Mr. Heilman takes account of stage effects; he traces out literal and symbolic meanings; he analyzes plot relationships; he examines characters in terms of both their psychological and their moral situations, and style in relation to both character and meaning.

The most striking difference between Othello and Shakespeare's other tragedies is its more intimate scale. Since the play focuses on personal rather than public life, Othello's private descent into jealous obsession is especially chilling to behold

The masterful depiction of the anguish of uncertainty offered in Othello demonstrates the full scope of Shakespeare's mastery. Language itself proves to be the source of Othello's power and its eclipse. The essays in this volume offer insight into this classic play, including an introductory essay from noted literary scholar Harold Bloom.

Provides in-depth commentary on characters, themes, and the historical and social context of 300 most-studied literary works, including novels, plays, poems, speeches, and short stories, both international and American.

Collection of essays by Shakespeare scholars that have been selected for students at the high school or undergraduate college level. Each entry includes an introduction; a plot synopsis; a character list; a discussion of the work's principal themes; information about the style and literary devices used; a conversation about the work's historical context; and a critical overview.

Written from the premise that to know Shakespeare's world is to better understand his work, this book presents the playwright's life in its proper Elizabethan and Jacobean context. Readers should find the text comprehensive in its treatment of Shakespeare's home and family, his education, London and the theatre as it was in his day, and the political, social, cultural and literary influences exerted by Elizabeth I and James I.

Covering 400 years of Shakespeare scholarship, Schoenbaum's now classic William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life received high acclaim from critics and scholars.

The product of exhaustive research by an Oxford scholar, this masterly study (The New Yorker) combines historical fact with a practical discussion of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and sonnets, interwoven with relevant moments from his life and age to create an accessible chronicle and an engaging read.

A polemical attack on the ways recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information. How can biographies of Shakespeare continue to appear when so little is known about him? And when what is known has been in the public domain for so long? In the past decade, the majority of these biographies have been published by distinguished Shakespeareans - shouldn't they know better? To solve this puzzle, David Ellis looks at the methods that Shakespeare's biographers have used to hide their lack of knowledge. At the same time, by exploring efforts to write a life of Shakespeare along traditional lines, it asks what kind of animal 'biography' really is and how it should bewritten.