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.

This 2001 book presents the first modernized and edited version of the 1622 Othello.

About the Author
Scott McMillin is Professor of English at Cornell University.

Reviews
'... groundbreaking in the specific area it covers ...' Lukas Erne, University of Geneva



Book Information
ISBN 9780521562577
Author William Shakespeare
Format Hardback
Page Count 160
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 417g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 159mm * 18mm