One of the most powerful dramas ever written for the stage,Othellois a story of revenge, illusion, passion, mistrust, jealousy, and murder. If in Iago Shakespeare created the most compelling villain in Western literature, in Othello and Desdemona he gave us our most tragic and unforgettable lovers.
A drama . . . get[s] Yales red-carpet treatment. Library Journal
Selected for Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2006
Selected as a 2005 outstanding book by Association of American University Presses (AAUP)University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries
Featured at American Library Association (ALA) as one of the "Best of the Best from the University Presses: Books you should know about."
Burton Raffelis Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities Emeritus and Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Among his many edited and translated publications arePoems and Prose from the Old English, Clig?s, Lancelot, Perceval, Erec and Enide,andYvain,all published by Yale University Press.Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University, is the author of many books, including The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human,andWhere Shall Wisdom Be Found?
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