Format:
XI, 148 S.
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
0-521-56257-0
Series Statement:
The new Cambridge Shakespeare : The early quartos [E,6]
Uniform Title:
Othello
Content:
"This is 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Tragedies
;
Tragedies
Author information:
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
