内容简介
This edition of Othello provides:
A clear and authoritative text,edited to the highest standards of scholarship.
Detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text.
A full,illustrated introduction to the play's historical,cultural and performance contexts.
An in -depth survey of critical approaches to the play.
A full index to the introduction and notes.
A select bibliography of references and further reading.
With a wealth of helpful and incisive commentary,The Arden Shakespeare is the finest edition of Shakespeare you can find.
目录
List of illustrations
General editors' preface
Preface
Introduction
A brief view of the play
Fictions of gender
Rosalind and the boy actor
Later Rosalinds
Celia
Orlando
Phoebe and Audrey
Date
The Forest of Arden
'Well, this is the Forest of Arden'
The hunt
Robin Hood and his merry men
Staging the Forest of Arden
Early foresters
The Earl of Essex
Thomas Morley
Realms of gold
Shakespeare and Thomas Lodge
Shakespeare and Sidney
Harington, Ariosto and Rabelais
Golden worlds
Pastoral
Genre: entertainments for Elizabeth
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