Othello

Cover......Page 1
Copyright page......Page 6
Contents......Page 9
List of Illustrations......Page 10
1b  Map of Cyprus (1590). From T. Porcacchi, L\'isole piu famose (1590)......Page 21
2a  A Venetian officer (1609)......Page 22
2b  The Duke (Doge) of Venice (1609). From Giacomo Franco, Habiti d\'huomeni et donne Venetia (1609)......Page 23
3a  Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anoun, Moorish Ambassador to Queen Elizabeth in 1600–1......Page 28
3b  Frontispiece to Othello in Nicholas Rowe\'s edition of Shakespeare\'s works, 1709......Page 29
4  A possible staging of Act 1, Scene 3.......Page 35
5  A possible staging of Act 5, Scene 1.......Page 42
6  Possible ways of staging Act 5, Scene 2.......Page 52
d  Laurence Olivier (1964)......Page 59
d  Godfrey Tearle (1948–9)......Page 61
d  Ellen Terry (1881)......Page 64
10  Imogen Stubbs as Desdemona and Willard White as Othello in the Trevor Nunn RSC production, The Other Place, 1989......Page 73
Recent film and television......Page 75
Acknowledgements......Page 12
1.  Shakespeare\'s plays......Page 13
2.  Editions......Page 14
3.  Other works, periodicals, general references......Page 15
Date......Page 17
Sources......Page 18
Othello\'s race......Page 26
The plot and its inconsistencies......Page 30
The play and its critics......Page 33
The language of the play......Page 46
Stage history......Page 54
Political Othellos......Page 68
New Historicism, Feminism, Cultural Materialism......Page 69
Critical responses and the issue of casting......Page 70
Other persuasions......Page 76
Texts: the Quarto......Page 77
Note on the text......Page 78
List of characters......Page 80
1......Page 81
2......Page 89
3......Page 94
1......Page 110
3......Page 123
1......Page 137
3......Page 140
4......Page 160
1......Page 168
2......Page 179
3......Page 188
1......Page 192
2......Page 198
2.1......Page 215
3.3......Page 216
5.2......Page 217
The 1622 quarto......Page 219
The 1623 Folio......Page 223
Substantive variants......Page 227
Editorial procedure......Page 231
Later seventeenth-century editions......Page 233
Reading list......Page 234