Scott McMillin has added a new section on key events in scholarship and theater since the 1980s (including international, political, feminist and postcolonial analysis) to this updated edition of Shakespeare's Othello. The influence of historicism and cultural materialism are also taken into account, and a complete description of performances of the play on stage, film and television considers the issue of the interracial casting of main characters. First Edition Hb (1984): 0-521-22339-3 First Edition Pb (1984): 0-521-29454-1
Author(s): William Shakespeare, Norman Sanders (editor)
Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare
Edition: Updated
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 233
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
1a Map of Venice (1617). From Fynes Moryson, Description of Venice (1617)
1b Map of Cyprus (1590). From T. Porcacchi, L'isole piu famose (1590)
2a A Venetian officer (1609)
2b The Duke (Doge) of Venice (1609). From Giacomo Franco, Habiti d'huomeni et donne Venetia (1609)
3a Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anoun, Moorish Ambassador to Queen Elizabeth in 1600–1
3b Frontispiece to Othello in Nicholas Rowe's edition of Shakespeare's works, 1709
4 A possible staging of Act 1, Scene 3.
5 A possible staging of Act 5, Scene 1.
6 Possible ways of staging Act 5, Scene 2.
7 Some 'Negro' Othellos
a Edmund Kean (1814, 1832–3)
b Paul Robeson (1930)
c Frederick Valk (1942)
d Laurence Olivier (1964)
8 Some 'Arab' Othellos
a Spranger Barry (c. 1775)
b Tommaso Salvini (1875)
c Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1901)
d Godfrey Tearle (1948–9)
9 Iagos and Desdemonas
a Edmund Kean (1814)
b Jose Ferrer (1943)
c Sarah Siddons (1785)
d Ellen Terry (1881)
10 Imogen Stubbs as Desdemona and Willard White as Othello in the Trevor Nunn RSC production, The Other Place, 1989
11 Patrick Stewart as Othello and Patrice Johnson as Desdemona in The Shakespeare Theatre's 1997 production, directed by Jude Kelly
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Conventions
1. Shakespeare's plays
2. Editions
3. Other works, periodicals, general references
Introduction
Date
Sources
Othello's race
The plot and its inconsistencies
The play and its critics
The language of the play
Stage history
Criticism and productions of Othello since 1984 by Scott McMillin
Political Othellos
New Historicism, Feminism, Cultural Materialism
Critical responses and the issue of casting
Recent film and television
Other persuasions
Texts: the Quarto
Note on the Text
List of Characters
OTHELLO
Act 1
1
2
3
Act 2
1
2
3
Act 3
1
2
3
4
Act 4
1
2
3
Act 5
1
2
Supplementary notes
1.1
1.3
2.1
2.3
3.3
4.3
5.2
Textual analysis
The 1622 quarto
The 1623 Folio
Substantive variants
Editorial procedure
Later seventeenth-century editions
Reading list
