William Shakespeare's Othello: A Sourcebook

✍ Scribed by Andrew Hadfield

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 195
• Series: Routledge Guides to Literature
• Edition: annotated edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Othello is one of Shakespeare's great tragedies. In this Routledge Literary Sourcebook, Andrew Hadfield provides the ideal starting point for students studying this play. Along with extensive annotated extracts from the play itself, the sourcebook includes materials on: contemporary documents; early critical reception of the play; twentieth century criticism and the play in performance.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 11
Series Editor’s Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Introduction......Page 16
1 Contexts......Page 20
Contextual Overview......Page 22
Chronology......Page 30
Contemporary Documents......Page 34
2 Interpretations......Page 48
Critical History......Page 50
Early Critical Reception......Page 59
Modern Criticism......Page 70
The Work in Performance......Page 109
3 Key Passages......Page 126
Introduction......Page 128
Key Passages......Page 131
4 Further Reading......Page 186
Further Reading......Page 188
Index......Page 192