Othello: Authoritative Text, Sources and Contexts, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions)

Shakespeare, William

ISBN 10: 0393976157 / ISBN 13: 9780393976151

Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2003

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Sources and Contexts reprints the sixteenth-century story by Giraldi Cinthio that Shakespeare used for the plot of Othello and for many of its details. Edward Pechter s essay provides context for readers through its discussion of the play s central topics Moors, Turks, Venetians, marriage and domesticity, fathers and daughters, and female sexuality.Seventeen wide-ranging interpretive essays are reprinted. Contributors include Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, T. S. Eliot, Kenneth Burke, Lynda E. Boose, Mark Rose, and Patricia Parker.An annotated Selected Bibliography is also included.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Edward Pechter’s books include Dryden’s Classical Theory of Literature, What Was Shakespeare? “Othello” and Interpretive Traditions, and, most recently, Shakespeare Studies Today: Romanticism Lost. He has taught at universities in the United States, England, and Canada and is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Concordia University (Montreal) and Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.

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Titel: Othello: Authoritative Text, Sources and ...
Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc
Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Good