Othello

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781722524869

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Othello by William Shakespeare Pdf

A TALE OF RACISM, REVENGE, BETRAYAL AND JEALOUSY One of Shakespeare’s most performed tragedies written in approximately 1603, Othello still resonates today with its themes of racism, revenge, betrayal and jealousy. Shakespeare creates a powerful drama with the story of a marriage between the exotic Moor, Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona. Despite building many differences into his hero and heroine, including race, age, and cultural background, most audiences believe the couple’s strong love could overcome these differences were it not for a once trusted cohort, lago, who sets out to destroy Othello. The play begins in the powerful city state of Venice, a center of trade and banking, known for its military might. War is raging between Venice and Turkey. Two men — Roderigo, a young gentleman and former suitor of Senator Brabantio's daughter Desdemona, and Iago, an ensign who claims to have been passed over for promotion by Othello, are outside Senator Brabantio's house to tell him the news of his daughter's elopement with Othello. Othello is a Moorish general in the Venetian army who is determined to lead his men to victory with his “trusted” ensign lago. But after being passed up for a promotion, Iago has plans of his own. Using Othello’s wife, Desdemona, as a pawn, Iago spins an elaborate web of deception leading Othello to believe that his wife is unfaithful and once lago has Othello where he wants him, revenge will be his. In the final dramatic scene of the play Othello strangles his wife, struggling with his love for her to the end.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8124801258

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Othello by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Oldcastle Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781843443780

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Othello by William Shakespeare Pdf

He's a bardass brother with the love of a fine woman. That is until some cloven hoofed honky starts talking crazy about variously hued sheep tupping the hell outta each other! You gotta pity the fool who gets shafted by the green eyed monster. Let's hope Othello can work out who to trust before it's too late...

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781644230220

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William Shakespeare × Chris Ofili: Othello by William Shakespeare Pdf

Othello remains one of Shakespeare's most contemporary and moving plays, with its emphasis on race, revenge, murder, and lost love. Chris Ofili’s new edition highlight’s the tragedy of Othello’s plight in ways no other volume of this play has. In twelve etchings Ofili has produced to illustrate this play, Othello is depicted with tears in his eyes, which flow below various scenes visualized in his forehead. Ofili asks us to see in Othello the great injustices that still plague the world today. These images add feeling to Shakespeare’s words, and together they form their own hybrid object—something between a book and a visual retelling of the tragedy. With a foreword by the renowned critic Fred Moten, this edition is the first of its kind and puts Othello’s blackness and interiority front and center, forcing us to confront the complex world that ultimately dooms him. The first play in the Seeing Shakespeare Series, Othello is illustrated by English contemporary artist Chris Ofili. Future titles in the series include A Midsummer Night’s Dream illustrated by Marcel Dzama and The Merchant of Venice with images by Jordan Wolfson.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798715261953

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Othello by William Shakespeare Pdf

Othello, The Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the short story "Moor of Venice" by Cinthio, believed to have been written in approximately 1603. The work revolves around four central characters: Othello, his wife Desdemona, his lieutenant Cassio, and his trusted advisor Iago. Attesting to its enduring popularity, the play appeared in 7 editions between 1622 and 1705. Because of its varied themes -- racism, love, jealousy and betrayal -- it remains relevant to the present day and is often performed in professional and community theatres alike. The play has also been the basis for numerous operatic, film and literary adaptations. (From Wikipedia)(less)

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0300108079

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Othello by William Shakespeare Pdf

Presents William Shakespeare's dramatic tragedy in which Iago, jealous of Othello's successes in the army of Venice, plots against him, pretending to be his friend while planting seeds of doubt about the faithfulness of his wife, Desdemona; and includes text glosses, an introduction, details on the Shakespearean stage, an essay by critic Harold Bloom, and a further reading list.

Author : Virginia Mason Vaughan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996-12-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521587085

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Othello by Virginia Mason Vaughan Pdf

Shakespeare's Othello has exercised a powerful fascination over audiences for centuries with its portrayal of destructive jealousy. This study is a major exercise in the historicisation of Othello in which the author examines contemporary writings and demonstrates how they were embedded in the text of Othello: discourse about conflict between Turk and Venetian treatises on the professionalisation of England's military forces, representations of Africans and blackamoors, and narratives depicting jealous husbands. The second section traces Othello's history in England and the United States from the Restoration to the late 1980s, using illustrations where appropriate. Each chapter highlights a specific historical period, actor or production to demonstrate how and why elements from Shakespeare's text were emphasised or repressed. Othello is revealed as a significant shaper of cultural meaning.

Author : John Seely,William Shakespeare
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0435193058

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Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare: Othello by John Seely,William Shakespeare Pdf

This text focuses on preparing students for A-Level. It has notes, end-of-act activities, tips from an A-Level Chief Examiner and space for students' own annotations.

Author : Rosie Dickins
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781409585237

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Othello by Rosie Dickins Pdf

William Shakespeare's tragic play about The Moor of Venice, fully illustrated and retold for younger readers. Part of the Usborne Reading Programme, this book is written for fully confident readers who still need to gain the stamina needed for standard length books. "Crack reading and make confident and enthusiastic readers with this fantastic reading programme." - Julia Eccleshare

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781554813261

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Othello by William Shakespeare Pdf

Although other Shakespeare plays offer higher body counts, more gore, and more plentiful scenes of heartbreak, Othello packs an unusually powerful affective punch, stunning us with its depiction of the swiftness and thoroughness with which love can be converted to hatred, and forcing us to confront our complicity with social and political institutions that can put all of us—but especially the most vulnerable among us—at risk. This edition features a variety of interleaved materials—from maps and manuscripts to illustrations and extended discussions of myth and politics—that provide a context for the social and cultural allusions in the play. Appendices offer excerpts from Shakespeare’s key sources and historical materials on marriage, jealousy, and the treatment of people of African descent in Renaissance England. A collaboration between Broadview Press and the Internet Shakespeare Editions project at the University of Victoria, the editions developed for this series have been comprehensively annotated and draw on the authoritative texts newly edited for the ISE. This innovative series allows readers to access extensive and reliable online resources linked to the print edition.

Author : Lena Cowen Orlin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350310407

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Othello by Lena Cowen Orlin Pdf

With its focus on gender, power, race, sexuality, and violence, Othello is an important site for new critical approaches to the study of Shakespeare's works. Both criticism and culture are represented in this collection of recent essays which provides readers with examples of feminist, new-historicist, cultural materialist, deconstructive, and post-colonial perspectives on Othello. With discussions of recent stage and screen productions, and analysis of the use of the play in such contemporary events as the O.J. Simpson murder trial, this compelling critical volume presents a wide variety of ways of understanding the continuing significance of Shakespeare's play both in his own time and in ours.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781443441551

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Sonnets by William Shakespeare Pdf

Among the most enduring poetry of all time, William Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets address such eternal themes as love, beauty, honesty, and the passage of time. Written primarily in four-line stanzas and iambic pentameter, Shakespeare’s sonnets are now recognized as marking the beginning of modern love poetry. The sonnets have been translated into all major written languages and are frequently used at romantic celebrations. Known as “The Bard of Avon,” William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest English-language writer known. Enormously popular during his life, Shakespeare’s works continue to resonate more than three centuries after his death, as has his influence on theatre and literature. Shakespeare’s innovative use of character, language, and experimentation with romance as tragedy served as a foundation for later playwrights and dramatists, and some of his most famous lines of dialogue have become part of everyday speech. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Author : Philip Kolin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136536311

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Othello by Philip Kolin Pdf

Including twenty-one groundbreaking chapters that examine one of Shakespeare's most complex tragedies. Othello: Critical Essays explores issues of friendship and fealty, love and betrayal, race and gender issues, and much more.

Author : Publishing Interlingua Publishing
Publisher : InterLingua Publishing
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781602991019

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EngLits-Othello (pdf) by Publishing Interlingua Publishing Pdf

Author : Gary K Carey,Helen McCulloch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780544183148

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CliffsNotes on Shakespeare’s Othello by Gary K Carey,Helen McCulloch Pdf

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in the series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. Betrayal and manipulation lie at the heart of Othello. Keep up with all the crosses and double-crosses of this tragic play with the CliffsNotes version of the play, which will help you form your own opinions about Iago's schemes, Othello's motives, and Desdemona's loyalty. Other features that help you study include Background information about the life and times of William Shakespeare to help you understand his influences A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters Glossaries to help you comprehend Shakespeare’s language Critical essays on the character pairs and major themes of the play A review section that tests your knowledge Classic literature or modern-day treasure—you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.