UID:
edocfu_9961293713102883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 148 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-56397-9
Series Statement:
New Cambridge Shakespeare
Uniform Title:
Othello
Content:
This 2001 book presents the first modernized and edited version of the 1622 Othello. By taking this earliest published version of Othello as a book in its own right, Scott McMillin accounts for the mystery of its thousands of differences from the Folio version by arguing that the Quarto was printed from a theatre script reflecting cuts and actors' interpolations made in the playhouse. McMillin explains that the playhouse script was apparently taken from dictation by a scribe listening to the actors themselves, and thus reveals how Othello was spoken in seventeenth-century performance. This edition, which consists of a detailed introduction, quarto text, select collation and textual notes, is an important book for scholars in Shakespeare and Elizabethan-Jacobean drama, with wide ramifications for other Shakespeare textual studies and for students of early theatre history.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Aug 2019).
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-56257-0
Language:
English
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