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| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Washington Square Press Catalog: Book Release date: 2004-01-01 Media: Mass Market Paperback Number of pages: 368 Ean: 9780743477550 Book Isbn: 0743477553  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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Folger Shakespeare Library The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best earlyprinted version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • Scene-by-scene plot summaries • A key to famous lines and phrases • An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language • An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play • Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books Essay by Susan Snyder The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. |
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 Written on June 13, 2004 Summary: awful I have only read a few of Shakepeare's books (Romeo and Juliet; Macbeth; King Lear; Much Ado About Nothing and Otherllo) but Othello is strikingly pathetic; ridiculously tepid, and on top of all; totally unbelievable. I don't get where people get the notion from that Othello is realistic and "universal," maybe if you have never read any book or lived inside a box your whole life. I actually laughed numerous times when the play was supposed to be serious - the book is filled with bathos. Iago tells a slue of "facts" to Othello suggesting Desdemona has cheated on him with Cassio, and Othello believes all of it at the drop of a dime. He doesn't go to investigate or question Desdemona, it just becomes fact. The book also is quite similar to a lot of Shakespeare's stuff; myriad relationships between minor characters that are in fact pointless (cassio and bianaca; roderigo and Iago, no point), the death of most of the characters (it's cool but predictable, and Desdemona's death is a fine example of anticlimax). In fact I didn't care about most of the characters. Just more overrated highschool garbage. King Lear is infinitely better; with a better plot, story and importantly characters. Written on May 18, 2004 Summary: a great tragedy Othello is the first Shakespeare play I've read without it being assigned by a professor and I can truly say it was very rewarding. The problems of betrayal and racism in the play speak to the problems we are still seeing in the world today. Othello seems like such a genuine character, though he is pushed too far by his passions. If you were frustrated by Hamlet and his cowardly indecisiveness, you will be refreshed by Othello. The play is easy to read (as far as Shakespeare is concerned) and it is resonant of today's world. This is a play that encourages me to read more of Shakespeare's plays. Written on May 10, 2004 Summary: Review of William Shakespeare's "Othello" by Terry Hoge What is more inticing than a story involving war-like patrons and scandal? This book has been absolutely entertaining and suspensful to read. It was stunning how many false stories, insinuations, and accussations the character "Iago" had set up from the beginning to the end. There were also so many other character types such as the pawn-like Roderigo, the seemingly calm yet furiously jealous Othello, the bleeding-heart of Desdemona, the honorable Cassio, and more! It was amazing how Iago had actually set up his false stories from the very beginning of the novel where he first employes Roderigo as his foolish pawn. The only factor of this book that was somewhat unsettling was how easily swayed Othello had gotten from Iago's insinuations. To a certain point, it almost seemed unrealistic. For example, towards the end of the play, when Iago retrieves the seemingly precious and invaluable handkercheif and uses it to make it seem that Cassio had recently been with Desdemona, that seems to be a little bit illogical. Just because Othello finds that Cassion has been holding the precious handkercheif doesn't abosuletly mean the Desdemona has been unfaithful. However, some could argue that the heavy pile of insinuations and false stories/accusations that Iago has placed on Othello could be seen as reason enough for Othello's furious rage and jealous behavior. All in all, though, this book has been quite pleasing. The amount of scandal (scandal as in the falsness of Iago) has been enough to please anyone looking for a suspensful tragedy to read. Written on February 21, 2004 Summary: Othello is O good read O! Makes me think of Jell-o! Really. While I was reading Othello with my tubby custard in one hand and the book held at a 90 degree angel in the other I thought, I'm reading a play and eating a custard from and outlawed children's show how bizare. However, life is filled with such suprises. Kind of like the suprises in the Bard's play Othello. Othello is a man who should have had it all. He had friends, a loving wife, and an army at his command. The play follows Othello through a conspiracy of his villanous friend, Iago, not the parrot from Aladin, but Shakespeare's greatest villan. Iago was disgrunteled by the fact that he was passed up on a raise and there fore plots everyone's downfall. Making this a great read for the guy at the bottom of totum pole who is doing fries and wants to move up to salads. Iago in the openion of this reader is the true comic genius. He plays Othello and others like they have the mental capacity of tree stumps. He convinces Othello that Desdemona, his wife, is having an afair. Iago narrates most of the play and you here a lot of what he is thinking and planing to do. Which brings me to jello nobody cares what Bill Cosby is thinking or that he is still trying to salvage a carrier. This play is by far one of the best of Shakespeares in terms of great characters, surprises, and monologes. The readers are beautifully captivated by the play with the genius use of dramatic irony. Nobody knows what will happen and at anytime a surprise is waiting to happen. Written on January 24, 2004 Summary: Deplorable! "Othello" is a play that will show you how unredeemable human beings can be. It'll make you question everyone, along with his or her motives and beliefs. It also shows you how men lusted after women in the late 16th century, but how women could not lust after men. The double standard was put to the test, and, as always, women lose this battle. Women may sell themselves as whores, and are ridiculed for it, but the men who use their services are overlooked. This is a foul play and I think Shakespeare held women without regard. Othello was a despicable man who had little self-esteem I do not recommend. |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 2004-01-01 | 2003-07-01 | 2003-07-01 | 2004-01-01 | 2004-01-01 | 2004-06-22 |
| Media | Mass Market Paperback | Mass Market Paperback | Mass Market Paperback | Mass Market Paperback | Mass Market Paperback | Mass Market Paperback |
| Number of pages | 368 | 400 | 272 | 384 | 288 | 272 |
| Ean | 9780743477550 | 9780743477123 | 9780743477109 | 9780743482769 | 9780743477567 | 9780743482837 |
| Book Isbn | 0743477553 | 074347712X | 0743477103 | 074348276X | 0743477561 | 0743482832 |
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