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Othello
Othello
Author: William Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan
Though this great tragedy of unsurpassed intensity and emotion is played out against Renaissance splendor, its story of the doomed marriage of a Venetian senator’s daughter, Desdemona, to a Moorish general, Othello, is especially relevant to modern audiences. The differences in race and background create an initial tension that allows the ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780553213027
ISBN-10: 0553213024
Publication Date: 1/1/1988
Pages: 352
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 9 ratings
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Helpful Score: 2
This is a wonderful introductory Shakespeare book. The full story is laid out in comic style presentaion. Famous quotes are kept as Shakespeare wrote them, but other text is a more modern, lower reading level text. Includes vocabulary list and discussion on the last page.
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Helpful Score: 1
The Folger Libray edition is very useful for students who are unfamiliar with Elizabethan language, customs, and other oddities
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It's Shakespeare. Need I say more?
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The exciting new series that began in Fall 2004 withMacbeth, 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 include the full text of the play, with editorial revisions and commentary by Harold Bloom.
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if you like Shakespeare you'll love this book!!
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Lovers of Shakespeare will already know this work. I know of no one who can speak with adequacy and profundity simultaneously regarding The Bard unless it were Shakespeare himself.
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1969 Paperback Edited by Louis b. Wright and Virginia A. LaMar. A "readable text", looks to be a good study guide
lilmeg avatar reviewed Othello on
I have read this three times, and it is a wonderful classic!


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