Othello

William Shakespeare

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Bradbrook, Muriel C. Themes and Conventions in Elizabethan Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition 2002.

Bradley, A. C. Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, & Macbeth. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Cavell, Stanley. Disowning Knowledge in Six Plays of Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespearean Stage, 1574–1642. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Heilman, Robert. Magic in the Web: Action and Language in Othello. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1956.

Kolin, Philip, ed. Othello: New Critical Essays. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Rosenberg, Marvin. The Masks of Othello. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, new edition 1992.

Shaughnessy, Robert, ed. Shakespeare in Performance. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

Snyder, Susan. Othello: Critical Essays. New York: Garland, 1988.

Vaughan, Virginia Mason. Othello: A Contextual History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Awerthome

by Trolldemort, March 13, 2013

It is awethome cos they all die

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enthusiastic jealousy

by IndustrialCarnage, April 02, 2013

This is perhaps one of Shakespeare's more interesting plays, if you will. In comparison to Macbeth it isn't quite the walk in the park.
I think conceptually it enables the reader to see that characters can influence characters to such a degree that the original traits are masked and changed. Tragedy in this play is definitely a main component - and a great emphasis that perhaps the villain doesn't always find their true defeat. In a way, wasn't the "villain" successful? He lied to everyone and pretty much killed whomever got in his way.

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