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The Connell Guide To Shakespeare's Othello (Paperback)
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The Connell Guide To Shakespeare's Othello (Paperback)
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With the exception of Hamlet, Othello is Shakespeare's most
controversial play. It is also his most shocking. Dr Johnson
famously described the ending as "not to be endured", and H.H.
Furness, after editing the Variorum edition of the play, confessed
to wishing that "this tragedy had never been written". No play in
performance has prompted more outbursts from onlookers: there are
many recorded instances of members of the audience actually trying
to intervene to prevent Othello murdering Desdemona. It is a more
domestic tragedy than Hamlet, King Lear or Macbeth, and it is the
intimacy of its subject matter which gives it its dramatic power.
Othello is a faithful portrait of life, wrote one anonymous
Romantic critic. "Love and jealousy are passions which all men,
with few exceptions, have at some time felt." Othello has also
prompted more critical disputes than any other play except Hamlet.
How could the hero possibly believe his wife had been unfaithful
within a few days of their marriage? Is the marriage consummated
(as it is usually assumed to be)? Is Othello a noble hero or is he
really just a self-deluded egotist? And in this play about a
disastrous inter-racial marriage, how important is the whole issue
of race? Is the play itself racist? This book looks at what Othello
is really about and why it has such power to move us. It aims to
offer a clear, authoritative and fresh view of Othello, while
taking account of the many fascinating insights other critics have
had into the play in the four centuries since it was written.
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