Product Description

This book includes twenty-one groundbreaking chapters that examine one of Shakespeare's most complex tragedies. The book explores issues of friendship and fealty, love and betrayal, race and gender issues, and much more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1903376 in Books
• Published on: 2001-12-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 472 pages

Review
"Kolin's article is a masterful survey and in itself makes the book worthwhile. He is especially comprehensive and even-handed with the most recent era. Anyone undertaking the study of this play should begin here.."
-William Procter Williams, "Shakespeare Bulletin, , Fall 2002
..."unlike many collections of Shakespeare criticism, this volume does not include well-worn essays, but rather new, thought-provoking selections that extend the critical discourse; open up the play's connection to such diverse concepts as feminism, Marxism, new historicism, and semiotics; consider the play's relevance to broad cultural issues; and examine challenging new stagings. . .This title will be the go-to book on the play for scholars and theater practitioners, offering value for both students at the beginning of their Shakespeare study and scholars at an advanced level of study."
-Choice, December 2002
"Professor Kolin has given us more than yet another addition to Shakespeareana. This volume of essays is stimulating and sound both in its scholarly conclusinos as well as in its noteworthy considerations of both the critical and the theatrical. These complementary assessments increase its value as a resource to both critics and producers of Shakespeare."
-Sidney Berger, University of Houston/Houston Shakespeare Festival, Journal of Drama Theory and Criticism, Spring 2002
"Put together these essays are complementary rather than competing, the sign of an editor with a wide vision and critical horizon."
-Rodney Stenning Edgecombe, University of Cape Town, The Shakespeare Newsletter, Spring 2002
"In this exceptional collection of essays on Othello, twenty authors range across a vastlandscape of critical practice, regularly startling us with insights about this play and performances of it. Where else can one read in side-by-side essays a lucid account of the textual intricacies of the quarto and folio editions of the play and thena compelling study of stage violence, citing actual productions? Roderigo, a dangerous guide for the audience; Iago, a master actor in a metatheatrical allegory; and Desdemona, caught in conflicting matrimonial models, all emerge in astute new critical understanding. Philip Kolin deserves our thanks for initiating and producing this volume that will compel every serious student of Shakespeare to think anew about the joys and terror of this spare and frightening tragedy."
-David M. Bergeron, University of Kansas

From the Back Cover
Including twenty-one groundbreaking chapters that examine one of Shakespeare's most complex tragedies. Othello: Critical Essays explores issues of friendship and fealty, love and betrayal, race and gender issues, and much more.

About the Author
Philip Kolin is Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the series editor of the Shakespeare Criticism series.