OthelloAssociated University Presse, 2012 - Drama Critics have praised either "Hamlet" or "King Lear" as the greatest of Shakespeare's "mature" tragendies. Ernst Honigmann, in the most significant edition of the play for a generation, asks: why not "Othello"? This edition sheds new light on the text of the play as we have come to know it, and on our knowledge of its early history. |
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... Salvini about to stamp out Iago's brains . The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News July 17 , 1875. See note on III.3 . 363-7 . ( p . 244 ) 9B : The same moment from the first performance of Verdi's Otello at La Scala , Milan . From ...
... Salvini about to stamp out Iago's brains . The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News July 17 , 1875. See note on III.3 . 363-7 . ( p . 244 ) 9B : The same moment from the first performance of Verdi's Otello at La Scala , Milan . From ...
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... Salvini Theatre Drury Lane ( 1875 ) ( début at Vicenza , 1856 ) Covent Garden ( 1884 ) 1876 Henry Irving Desdemona : Isabel Bateman 1881 Henry Irving / Edwin Booth Lyceum Lyceum Othello : Irving , Booth Iago : Booth , Irving Desdemona ...
... Salvini Theatre Drury Lane ( 1875 ) ( début at Vicenza , 1856 ) Covent Garden ( 1884 ) 1876 Henry Irving Desdemona : Isabel Bateman 1881 Henry Irving / Edwin Booth Lyceum Lyceum Othello : Irving , Booth Iago : Booth , Irving Desdemona ...
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... the Negro Tragedian ( 1958 ) Marston : Westland Marston , Our Recent Actors , 2 vols ( 1888 ) Martin - Harvey : The Autobiography of Sir John Martin - Harvey ( 1933 ) Mason : E.T. Mason , The Othello of Tommaso Salvini xiv Abbreviations.
... the Negro Tragedian ( 1958 ) Marston : Westland Marston , Our Recent Actors , 2 vols ( 1888 ) Martin - Harvey : The Autobiography of Sir John Martin - Harvey ( 1933 ) Mason : E.T. Mason , The Othello of Tommaso Salvini xiv Abbreviations.
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William Shakespeare. Mason : E.T. Mason , The Othello of Tommaso Salvini ( 1890 ) MacCarthy : Desmond MacCarthy , The Theatre ( 1954 ) Merivale : Herman Charles Merivale , Bar , Stage and Platform : Autobiographic Memories ( 1902 ) ...
William Shakespeare. Mason : E.T. Mason , The Othello of Tommaso Salvini ( 1890 ) MacCarthy : Desmond MacCarthy , The Theatre ( 1954 ) Merivale : Herman Charles Merivale , Bar , Stage and Platform : Autobiographic Memories ( 1902 ) ...
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