Othello and The Tragedy of Mariam Author:William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Cary, Clare Carroll As part of Longman's new series of cultural editions, Clare Carroll presents William Shakespeare's Othello, the Moor of Venice and Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry in several provocative and illuminating contexts--cultural, critical, and literary. — With its lively introductions, valuable narrative sources, and vari... more »ety of early modern materials on race, marriage, women, and gender, this cultural edition invites the reader to set Othello and Mariam in relation to each other and in the contexts of the time. The resulting "conversation" enables a historically and textually sensitive investigation of how each tragedy reflects and also questions cultural assumptions, then and now.« less