William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Bradley, A. C.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

«The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice» is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the short story Un Capitano Moro («A Moorish Captain») by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565. The work revolves around four central characters: Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army; his beloved wife, Desdemona; his loyal lieutenant, Cassio; and his trusted but unfaithful ensign, Iago. Because of its varied and current themes of racism, love, jealousy, betrayal, revenge and repentance, Othello is still often performed in professional and community theatres alike and has been the basis for numerous operatic, film, and literary adaptations.

The ebook edition of «The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice» from Animedia Company contains black-and-white illustrations by Frederic Leighton, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Henry Courtney Selous. What is more, it includes the «Lectures On Othello, etc.» by A. C. Bradley.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Animedia Classics
• Seitenzahl: 159
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788074991127
• Artikelnr.: 48791745

Autorenporträt

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death. Barbara A. Mowat is Director of Research emerita at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Consulting Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, and author of The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare’s Romances and of essays on Shakespeare’s plays and their editing. Paul Werstine is Professor of English at the Graduate School and at King’s University College at Western University. He is a general editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare and author of Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare and of many papers and articles on the printing and editing of Shakespeare’s plays.

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