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From the Royal Shakespeare Company -- a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's magnificent tragedy of love, jealousy and explosive racial politics THIS EDITION INCLUDES: / An illuminating introduction to Othello by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate / The play - with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page / A helpful scene-by-scene analysis and key facts about the play / An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre / A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play featuring photographs of key productions The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This unique edition presents a historical overview of Othello in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with two leading directors and an actor-- Trevor Nunn, Michael Attenborough and Antony Sher -- so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible, a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death. Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare plays offer an accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first century.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Othello
• Author: William Shakespeare
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780230576223
• ISBN: 0230576222
• ID: 04040735
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 262 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 129 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. August 2009

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