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The First Quarto of Othello (The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos)
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Product Description
This is the first modernized and edited version of the 1622 Othello. By taking this earliest published version of Othello as a book in its own right, Scott McMillin accounts for the mystery of its thousands of differences from the Folio version by arguing that the Quarto was printed from a theatre script reflecting cuts and actors’ interpolations made in the playhouse. McMillin explains that the playhouse script was apparently taken from dictation by a scribe listening to the actors themselves, and thus reveals how Othello was spoken in seventeenth-century performance. This edition, which consists of a detailed introduction, quarto text, select collation and textual notes, is 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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1235195 in Books
- Published on: 2001-08-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 160 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
'…ground breaking in the specific area it covers…' Lukas Erne, Professor of English, University of Geneva
About the Author
Scott McMillin is Professor of English at Cornell University.
