The First Quarto of Othello Hardback
by William Shakespeare
Edited by Scott (Cornell University, New York) McMillin
Part of the The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos series
Hardback
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This 2001 book presents 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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:16/08/2001
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- ISBN:9780521562577
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:16/08/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521562577
