This edition is edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex, launching the Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Series alongside Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugral volumes – a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare’s works whose textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Long regarded as one of Shakespeare’s most powerful tragedies, Othello is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction, in which Desdemona’s love for Othello, the Moor, rises above racial prejudice even as the envious Iago schemes to destroy their lives. Through its vivid treatment of racism, sexism, contested identities and the savagery lying beneath civilisation, Othello stands out as perhaps the most topical and accessible tragedy of Shakespeare’s major dramatic period, and stage and screen productions continue to renew its power to engross, impress and trouble the imagination.
ISBN 13: 9781853260186
Author: William Shakespeare
