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1	Othello more books like this by William Shakespeare Written at some time between 1602 and 1604, Othello belongs to the period in which Shakespeare's powers as a tragic dramatist were at their peak. On stage, the romantic cast of its story and the remorseless drive of its plotting, combined with operatic extravagance of its emotion and the swelling music of its poetry, have made it amongst the most ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Othello more books like this by Gayle Holste (Editor), William Shakespeare One new title has been added to Barron's popular and long-standing Shakespeare Made Easy series. Shakespeare's tragedy of the Moor whose love for Desdemona is destroyed by jealousy is presented in its original text on each left-hand page, with a modernized "translation" on the facing right-hand page. Also included are quizzes and discussion points ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.44! \| SVS
3	Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and Romeo and Juliet more books like this by William Shakespeare Includes 4 of the playwright's greatest works: "Hamlet," featuring the drama world's most discussed and contentious character;" Macbeth, "concerning a Scots nobleman's overweening ambition; "Othello, "in which a gallant soldier is undone by jealousy; and "Romeo and Juliet, "the tale of the lovers whose names are synonymous with star-crossed ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.08! \| SVS
4	Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet/Othello/King Lear/Macbeth more books like this by William Shakespeare, Sylvan Barnet (Introduction by) The greatest works of tragedy from the Bard, this book features "Hamlet, Othello, King Lear" and "Macbeth". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.56! \| SVS
5	Othello and the Tragedy of Mariam, a Longman Cultural Edition more books like this by William Shakespeare, Jennifer Stapleton, David Damrosch From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Othello, edited by prominent Shakespearean scholar Clare Carroll, includes Othello, Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of Jewry, and source materials on early modern ethnography and on women and gender. Longman Cultural Editions are a new series of teaching texts edited by prominent scholars. In ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.13!
6	Othello: Authoritative Text, Sources and Contexts, Criticism more books like this by William Shakespeare, Edward Pechter (Editor) Based on the first Folio text of 1623, this edition of "Othello" is accompanied by footnotes and an introduction addressing the textual situation for Shakespeare. The play's central topics and a wide range of interpretative responses are included. see all copies from $3.91! new only from $5.40! \| first editions
7	Othello: Texts and Contexts more books like this by Shakespeare Hall, William Shakespeare, Kim Hall (Editor) This edition of "Othello" reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by six sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare. The text includes tracts on marriage, travel literature, military manuals, maps, ballads, royal proclamations, early modern ... see all copies from $8.21! new only from $11.98!
8	Othello more books like this by Norman Sanders (Editor) Lively, instructive access to Shakespeare's rich and complex works. Professor Sanders provides a full analysis of the textual problem and theories of transmission of Othello, and offers possible solutions to the stylistic and racial problems which face modern readers and spectators. His edition includes contemporary maps of Venice and Cyprus, ... see all copies from $3.49! new only from $3.49!
9	William Shakespeare's Othello more books like this by Harold Bloom -- Presents concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work -- Provides multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters -- Digests of critical extracts prefaced by headnotes see all copies from $2.00!
10	The Young Reader's Shakespeare: Othello more books like this by Adam McKeown, Sterling Hundley (Illustrator) A new entry in the superb, visually striking, and innovative series for young people. Children, parents, librarians, educators, and critics will all be delighted to have another engrossing retelling of one of Shakespeare's plays. A young woman's elopement with a dark-skinned foreigner. An evil manipulator, dead set on bloody revenge. A noble ... see all copies from $8.34! new only from $8.34! \| SVS
11 view cover	Othello: Character Studies more books like this by Nicholas Potter "Othello" is a major Shakespearean text, studied widely and often adapted for film and TV and especially challenging for a multicultural society. "Othello" lends itself to criticism through discussion of the major characters although this study will also focus on recent criticism's analysis of the characters as 'signifiers'. The study of the key ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $13.46! \| SVS
12 view cover	Four great tragedies more books like this by William Shakespeare The plays here--Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth--are considered to be the four central works of Shakespearean tragedy and must be included in any list of the world's finest tragic literature. Another volume of the finest, most comprehensive Shakespeare series available. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
13 view cover	Othello more books like this by Professor Harold Bloom (Editor), Neil Heims, PH.D. (Editor) This is an invaluable study guide to Shakespeare's "Othello". The most striking difference between "Othello" and Shakespeare's other tragedies is its more intimate scale. Since the play focuses on personal rather than public life, "Othello"'s private descent into jealous obsession is especially chilling to behold.This invaluable new study guide to ... see all copies from $3.57! new only from $13.74! \| SVS
14 view cover	Othello more books like this by Lena Cowen Orlin This collection of recent essays provides readers with examples of feminist, new historicist, cultural materialist, deconstructive and post-colonial criticism of "Othello". Together they show how Shakespeare's play continues to signify in popular culture as well as in critical history. The volume includes a helpful introduction on critical ... see all copies from $9.20! new only from $14.53!
15 view cover	Shakespeare's Othello more books like this by Professor Harold Bloom The exciting new series that began in Fall 2004 with "Macbeth," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and "Henry IV" continues... "Negative charisma is an odd endowment; Iago represents it uniquely in Shakespeare, and most literary incarnations of it since owe much to Iago." - Harold Bloom Each edition in the Harold Bloom Shakespeare series will ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
16 view cover	William Shakespeare: Othello more books like this by Nicholas Potter (Editor), Professor Nicolas Tredell (Editor) "Othello" is perhaps Shakespeare's most troublesome tragedy. While it has retained its popularity on the stage, many critics have struggled to come to terms with it. The Romantics warmed to the figure of Othello himself and wrung their hands over the plight of Desdemona; the Modernists looked down on the play as an achievement of Shakespeare's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95!
17 view cover	Othello more books like this by Lois Potter Of all Shakespeare's tragedies, "Othello", with its issues of racism, jealousy and sexual stereotyping seems most immediate to contemporary audiences. This work traces Othello's acting tradition as it has affected the roles of Othello, Desdemona and Iago - demonstrating the emphasis placed on different characters in different countries. It ... see all copies from $16.15! new only from $28.07!
18 view cover	Othello more books like this by Paul Illidge Shakespeare's major plays are not abridged or summarised in these editions, but are paraphrased line-by-line in modern English to create a prose narrative that also incorporates stage directions and dialogue. The flavour of the original is retained by the use of iambic pentameter and rhyme, but higher flights of symbolism and poetic allusion are ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.47! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	William Shakespeare's Othello: A Sourcebook more books like this by Andrew Hadfield (Editor) Othello has delighted and disturbed theatre audiences for four centuries and remains one of the most frequently performed and widely studied of Shakespeare's plays. This broad-ranging guide introduces: the play's contexts, including an overview, chronology and reprinted contemporary documents critical responses, through a brief critical history ... see all copies from $19.95! new only from $19.95!
20	Otello more books like this by Giuseppe Verdi see all copies from $7.29! signed copies \| first editions
21	Othello more books like this by Peter Hobley Davison In the first part of this study six critical approaches to Othello are outlined: genre; historical and social; dramatic convention and decorum; character and psychological; the play as dramatic poem and archetypal criticism. The second part of the study offers the author's own, contextual approach. He takes into account the historical and social ... see all copies from $1.99! SVS
22 view cover	The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice: Applause First Folio Editions more books like this by Neil Freeman (Text by), William Shakespeare If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re ... see all copies from $7.50! new only from $8.02! \| SVS
23 view cover	Sipr: Othello 2ed more books like this by William Shakespeare, Julie Hankey (Editor), Jacky Bratton (Editor) This second edition of Othello updates the first (Bristol Classical Press, 1987), both chronologically and conceptually. It includes consideration of productions from the last seventeen years, and reconsiders earlier material in the light of more recent critical attitudes. Post-colonial and feminist studies have had an impact on the way Othello is ... see all copies from $77.65! new only from $77.65!
24 view cover	Othello Parallel Text more books like this by William Shakespeare Along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. What distinguishes Othello is its bold treatment of racial and gender themes. It is also the only tragedy to feature a main character, Iago, who truly seems evil, betraying and deceiving those that trust him purely for spite and with no political goal. ... see all copies from $1.99!
25 view cover	Understanding Othello: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents more books like this by Faith Nostbakken Although Othello has been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, its performance history has been marked with risk and tension because of the play's focus on racial prejudice, gender conflict, and sexuality. The controversies surrounding conflicting attitudes toward race and religion, love and marriage, and war and the military in Shakespeare's ... see all copies from $31.13! new only from $97.40! \| first editions

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