The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the First Folio, printed in 1623. Additions and emendations adopted from the First Quarto (1622) appear in the Textual Notes that follow the play. Othello is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations.
“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.
【作者简介】
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 T
【目录】
List of Illustrations
Preface
A Note on the Text
The Text of Othello
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
Textual Commentary
Textual Notes
Sources and Contexts
Edward Pechter—[A Contextual Overview of Othello]
Giraldi Cinthio—[The Moor of Venice]
Criticism
Introduction
Thomas Rymer—[“A Bloody Farce”]
Charles Gildon—[Comments on Rymer’s Othello]
Samuel Johnson—[Shakespeare, the Rules, and Othello]
Charles Lamb—[Othello’s Color: Theatrical vs. Literary Representation]
William Hazlitt—[Iago, Heroic Tragedy, and Othello]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge—[Comments on Othello]
A.C. Bradley—[“The most painfully exciting and the more terrible” of Shakespeare’s tragedies]
T.S. Eliot—[“The last great speech of Othello”]
Kenneth Burke—Othello: An Essay to Illustrate a Method
G.K. Hunter—Othello and Colour Prejudice
Lynda E. Boose—Othello’s Handkerchief, “The Recognizance and Pledge of Love”
Mark Rose—Othello’s Occupation: Shakespeare and the Romance of Chivalry
James R. Siemon—“Nay, that’s not next”: Othello, V.ii in Performance
Michael Neill—Unproper Beds: Race, Adultery, and the Hideous in Othello
Patrica Parker—Othello and Hamlet: Dilation, Spying and the ‘Secret Place’ of Woman
Michael D. Bristol—Race and the Comedy of Abjection in Othello
Edward Pechter—“Too Much Violence”: Murdering Wives in Othello
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