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Othello

Othello
This edition: eBook, 368 pages
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The authoritative edition of Othello from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, is now available as an eBook. Features include:

· The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference
· Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation
· Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
· Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
· Scene-by-scene plot summaries
· A key to famous lines and phrases
· An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language
· Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books
· An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the pla
Cape Times, September 7, 2011
...and brilliance of a concert pianist; do perfect splits; have an intricate understanding of musical composition; have memorised William Shakespeare’s Othello from beginning to end; be rated among the top 50 opera tenors in the world and be ...
Times Online, October 23, 2009
...final. Suicide, as Axler observes, is a central theme of some of the world’s greatest plays, from Othello to Death of a Salesman. The Humbling can take its place in such distinguished company as an analysis of suicide: it is a cold, ...
Blogcritics.org, September 26, 2009
...Some days I find it entertaining to think that William Shakespeare's influence on the English language was so profound, he has been credited for contributing between 1,500 and 8,000 words to the language. These may not have ...
North Adams Transcript, September 23, 2009
...that began with one Moor is ending on a different sort of moor. The former, of course, was Othello, the Moor of Venice. The latter is the foreboding plot of English countryside that provides the setting and the mood for "The Hound of the ...
Times Online, July 16, 2009
...an opportunity for pun that does not exist in English. Cólera, in Spanish, means both ?cholera? and ?anger?. William Shakespeare?s Othello Shakespear's Moor has a possible precursor in French medieval romance: Sir Othuel, a Moorish ...
Daily Northwestern, July 2, 2009
...upcoming year's 'One Book, One Northwestern' project. It is the fourth book selected, following, in chronological order, 'Othello' by William Shakespeare, 'Go Tell It on the Mountain' by James Baldwin and 'The Reluctant Mr. Darwin' by David ...
Blogcritics.org, March 2, 2009
...chapters are labeled as though they were required texts on a syllabus. Chapter one, for example, is called OTHELLO, William Shakespeare. Chapter two is named THE PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS YOUNG MAN, James Joyce, etc. etc. The concluding ...