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Tables of Contents for William Shakespeare's Othello
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
x
 
Series Editor's Preface
xi
 
Acknowledgements
xii
 
Introduction
1
6
Contexts
Contextual Overview
7
8
Chronology
15
4
Contemporary Documents
19
16
Gli Hecatommithi (1566)
19
2
Giraldi Cinthio
The History and Description of Africa (1600)
21
3
Leo Africanus
John Leo
An Itinerary Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell (1617)
24
1
Fynes Moryson
Coryat's Crudities (1611)
25
3
Thomas Coryat
The Jew of Malta (c.1590)
28
1
Christopher Marlowe
Selimus, Emperor of the Turks (1594)
28
2
Robert Greene
Titus Andronicus (c.1594)
30
5
William Shakespeare
Interpretations
Critical History
35
9
Early Critical Reception
44
11
A Short View of Tragedy (1693)
44
3
Thomas Rymer
The Plays of Shakespeare (1765)
47
1
Samuel Johnson
`Notes on the Tragedies' (published 1836-9) and Table Talk (1835)
48
2
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Shakespere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art (1875)
50
2
Edward Dowden
Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (1904)
52
3
A. C. Bradley
Modern Criticism
55
39
`The Othello Music' (1930)
55
2
G. Wilson Knight
`Iago' (1940)
57
3
E. E. Stoll
`Honest in Othello' (1951)
60
2
William Empson
`Diabolic Intellect and the Noble Hero' (1952)
62
1
F. R. Leavis
The Masks of Othello: The Search for the Identity of Othello, lago and Desdemona by Three Centuries of Actors and Critics (1961)
63
3
Marvin Rosenberg
`Othello and Colour Prejudice' (1967)
66
4
G. K. Hunter
`Nothing' (1986)
70
4
Terry Eagleton
```And wash the Ethiop white'': Femininity and the Monstrous in Othello' (1987)
74
4
Karen Newman
`Othello and the Myth of Venice' (1990)
78
6
David McPherson
``'Why should he call her whore?'': Defamation and Desdemona's Case' (1996)
84
8
Lisa Jardine
`The ``Gross clasps of a lascivious Moor'': The Domestic and Exotic Contexts of Othello' (1998)
92
2
Andrew Hadfield
The Work in Performance
94
19
`Othello on the English Stage 1604--1754' (1994)
94
1
Virginia Mason Vaughan
The Tatler, no 167 (1710)
95
2
Sir Richard Steele
`Mr. Macready's Othello' (1816)
97
3
William Hazlitt
Othello: A Contextual History (1994)
100
4
Virginia Mason Vaughan
`The Tragedies of Love on Film' (2000)
104
3
Patricia Tatspaugh
`Shakespeare Production in England in 1989' (1991)
107
6
Stanley Wells
Key Passages
Introduction
113
3
Key Passages
116
57
Act 1, Scene 1, lines 81-180
116
5
Act 1, Scene 3, lines 1-294
121
13
Act 2, Scene 3, lines 255-357
134
4
Act 3, Scene 3, lines 90-281
138
9
Act 3, Scene 3, lines 333-482
147
8
Act 4, Scene 1, lines 60-142
155
5
Act 4, Scene 2, lines 30-92
160
4
Act 5, Scene 2, lines 257-369
164
9
Further Reading
Editions and Text
173
1
Collections of Essays
173
1
Background Reading
174
1
Critical Interpretations
175
1
Stage History
175
2
Index
177