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.

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