List of illustrations
General editors preface
Preface
Introduction
The greatest tragedy?
Date, text anal principal source
Shakespeare and the Barbarians
Preliminary reading
Venice in the sixteenth century
Cyprus
Cinthio
Character criticism
Othello
Otherness
Iago
Desdemona
Emilia
Relationships
Sex and love
Feminism
Morality and the moral
Stereotypes
Plot
Genre
Language
Stage imagery
The play in the theatre
Again: the greatest tragedy?
THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO,
THE MOOR OF VENICE
Longer notes
Appendices
1 Date
2 The textualproblem
3 Cinthio and minor sources
4 Edward Pudseys extracts from Othello
5 Musical settings for songs in Othello
(Musical adviser: Helen Wilcox)
Abbreviations and references
Abbreviations used in notes
Shakespeares works and works partly by
Shakespeare
Editions of Shakespeare collated
Other works
Index