Gleeditions Othello
by William Shakespeare

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Recommended Edition

  • Professor-recommended edition
  • Text from First Quarto & First Folio
  • Updated spelling and punctuation
  • Modernization of commonly used word forms (e.g., ye  to you)

Navigational Features

  • Hyperlinked index
  • Table of Contents
  • Search tool
  • Interpage links
  • Related-videos link

Historical Background

  • Venice and Cyprus (map)
  • Myth of Venice
  • Male images and values
  • Upper-class females
  • Courtesans and courtiers
  • Debates on marriage
  • Race in society
  • Race in literature
  • Shakespeare’s sources
  • Performance history

Newly Annotated Play
For 7 Literary Elements

  • Characters
  • Plot
  • Setting
  • Style
  • Themes/Issues
  • Vocabulary
  • Voice/Point of View

Plus images, glossary, hyperlinks between related passages, save annotations feature, and performance clips from premium videos.

Credits T. Charles Erickson as Othello. © OSF 2008.

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