Othello

图书标准信息

• 作者 William Shakespeare（威廉·莎士比亚） 著；Sylvan、Alvin B. Kernan 编
• 出版社 Penguin
• 出版时间 1998-04
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9780451526854
• 定价 36.70元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 32开
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 320页
• 丛书 Signet Classics

【内容简介】

An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, a lively personal foreword by Joseph Papp, an insightful essay on the play in performance, modern spelling and pronunciation, up-to-date annotated bibliographies, and convenient listing of key passages.

【作者简介】

WilliamShakespearewasborninStratford-upon-AvoninApril1564,andhisbirthistraditionallycelebratedonApril23.Thefactsofhislife,knownfromsurvivingdocuments,aresparse.HewasoneofeightchildrenborntoJohnShakespeare,amerchantofsomestandinginhiscommunity.WilliamprobablywenttotheKing'sNewSchoolinStratford,buthehadnouniversityeducation.InNovember1582,attheageofeighteen,hemarriedAnneHathaway,eightyearshissenior,whowaspregnantwiththeirfirstchild,Susanna.ShewasbornonMay26,1583.Twins,aboy,Hamnet(whowoulddieatageeleven),andagirl,Judith,werebornin1585.By1592ShakespearehadgonetoLondonworkingasanactorandalreadyknownasaplaywright.Arivaldramatist,RobertGreene,referredtohimas"anupstartcrow,beautifiedwithourfeathers."Shakespearebecameaprincipalshareholderandplaywrightofthesuccessfulactingtroupe,theLordChamberlain'sMen(laterunderJamesI,calledtheKing'sMen).In1599theLordChamberlain'sMenbuiltandoccupiedtheGlobeTheaterinSouthwarkneartheThamesRiver.HeremanyofShakespeare'splayswereperformedbythemostfamousactorsofhistime,includingRichardBurbage,WillKempe,andRobertArmin.Inadditiontohis37plays,Shakespearehadahandinothers,includingSirThomasMoreandTheTwoNobleKinsmen,andhewrotepoems,includingVenusandAdonisandTheRapeofLucrece.His154sonnetswerepublished,probablywithouthisauthorization,in1609.In1611or1612hegaveuphislodgingsinLondonanddevotedmoreandmoretimetoretirementinStratford,thoughhecontinuedwritingsuchplaysasTheTempestandHenryVIIuntilabout1613.HediedonApril231616,andwasburiedinHolyTrinityChurch,Stratford.Nocollectededitionofhisplayswaspublishedduringhislife-time,butin1623twomembersofhisactingcompany,JohnHemingesandHenryCondell,puttogetherthegreatcollectionnowcalledtheFirstFolio.

【目录】

Shakespeare: An Overview vii

  Biographical Sketch vii / A Note on theAnti-StraOordians,

  Especially Baconians and Oxfordians xi / TheShakespeare

  Canon xv / Shakespeare's English xviii / Shakespeare's

  Theater xxvi / A Note on the Use of Boy Actors inFemale

  Roles xxxiii / Shakespeare's Dramatic Language: Cos-

  tumes, Gestures and Silences; Prose and Poetry xxxvi /The

  Play Text as a Collaboration xliii / Editing Texts xlix!

  Shakespeare on the Stage liv

Introduction lxiii

The Tragedy of Othello

Textual Note

The Source of Othello

  GIRALDI CINTHIO  Selection from Hecat0mmithi 1

Commentaries 147

  SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE  Othello

  MAYNARD MACK  The Jacobean Shakespeare: Some Ob-

     servations on the Construction of theTragedies

  MADELON GOHLKE SPRENGNETHER  "I wooed thee with

     my sword": Shakespeare's TragicParadigms

  MARVIN CARLSON  Othello in Vienna, 1991

  SYLVAN BARNET  Othello on Stage and Screen

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