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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Page vii
... moved by audiences who were moved by them in the past , and they are potent in a way that should heighten our expectations of theatre now . J.S. Bratton Julie Hankey A SELECTIVE CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF PERFORMANCES OF OTHELLO In this ...
... moved by audiences who were moved by them in the past , and they are potent in a way that should heighten our expectations of theatre now . J.S. Bratton Julie Hankey A SELECTIVE CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF PERFORMANCES OF OTHELLO In this ...
Page viii
... moved freely from one theatre to another . In such cases I have given the theatre of first performance . Later , wherever productions were given fixed seasons , I have included more detail , but the informa- tion is not exhaustive ...
... moved freely from one theatre to another . In such cases I have given the theatre of first performance . Later , wherever productions were given fixed seasons , I have included more detail , but the informa- tion is not exhaustive ...
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