Othello

Ayanna Thompson is Professor of English Literature at George Washington University, USA and author of several books about Shakespeare and race.E. A. J. Honigmann was Joseph Cowen Professor of English Literature at the Universty of Newcastle, UK.

• Introduction1. Early Modern Contexts: Sources, Peoples, and Places2. Genre3. Sex, Love, and Objects4. Othello and Scholarly Debates; 5. Othello Onstage, Part 1: Stage Histories6. Othello Onstage, Part 2: Black Actors, White Actresses7. Othello Onstage, Part 3: Othello in the World8. Othello: Restaged/Rewritten; OthelloAppendicesBibliographyIndex

The new introduction for the revised edition of Othello by Ayanna Thompson is a welcome reconsideration of the 1997 original Arden3 edition … Thompson’s introduction recognizes and incorporates the vast critical world of early modern race studies that has developed in the past twenty years … [It] is wide-ranging yet absolutely clear, providing a new frame for the play that students and academics alike will find useful for years to come … The superb introduction … opens new avenues of research and frames the play in ways that bring it up to date with the latest scholarship.