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THE FIRST QUARTO OF OTHELLO
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By: |
William Shakespeare, Scott McMillin (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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ISBN 10: |
0521562570 |
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9780521562577 |
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Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
16 August, 2001 |
Series: |
The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos |
Pages: |
160 |
Description: |
This 2001 book presents the first modernized and edited version of the 1622 Othello. |
Synopsis: |
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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UK |
Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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