Othello

by Emma Smith

Shakespeare's play of 1604 is marked from its outset by a doubleness in its very title 'Othello, or the Moor of Venice'. In this study Emma Smith teases out instances of doubleness, duplication and paradox to discuss the play's language and its themes.

144 pages, Hardcover

First published July 15, 2005

About the author

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Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Oxford. She has lectured widely in the UK and beyond on the First Folio and on Shakespeare and early modern drama. Her research interests include the methodology of writing about theatre, and developing analogies between cinema, film theory and early modern performance. Her recent publications include Macbeth: Language and Writing (2013), The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide (Cambridge, 2012) and Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book (2016).

Reviews

[Emma Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

iago is the best villain ever written

[Michael P. · Rating 4 out of 5]

This introductory guide takes an unusual approach to the play, and saying so is a disservice to you. I will interview the author in my "Talking Books" column in SHAKESPEARE NEWSLETTER, and am obliged to save my insights for that.