The first quarto of Othello

Authors:William Shakespeare, Scott McMillin

Summary:This 2001 book presents the first modernized and edited version of the 1622 Othello, this edition consists of a detailed introduction, quarto text, select collation and textual notes. An important book for scholars in Shakespeare and Elizabethan-Jacobean drama, with wide ramifications for other Shakespeare textual studies and for students of early theatre history.

Print Book, English, 2005

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Publisher: Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 2005

Series:

Early quartos, 96

Physical Description:XI, 148 Seiten.

ISBN:

9780521615945, 0521615941

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:254928789

Subjects:

Muslims Italy Venice Drama

Shakespeare William 1564-1616 Othello Criticism, Textual

Shakespeare, William Othello

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and conventions; Introduction: the textual problem; Q1 and foul papers; Greg sets the standard; Economy in the New Bibliography; Revision or abridgement; New evidence of foul papers?; Grounds for doubt; Walkley, Okes and the 'Cameron Group'; Punctuation; Compositorial prudence; Scribal punctuation and the Barnavelt Manuscript; Other King's-Men plays, 1619–22; Actors' interpolations; Listening; Dictation in the theatres; Mislineation; Playhouse scripts; Summary; Date of the Q1 playscript; Editorial procedure; The Play.