Authors: William Shakespeare, David Bevington (Editor), David Scott Kastan
ISBN-13: 9780553213027, ISBN-10: 0553213024
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: January 1988
Edition: Reissue
Though this great tragedy of unsurpassed intensity and emotion is played out against Renaissance splendor, its story of the doomed marriage of a Venetian senator's daughter, Desdemona, to a Moorish general, Othello, is especially relevant to modern audiences. The differences in race and background create an initial tension that allows the horrifyingly envious villain Iago methodically to promote the "green-eyed monster" jealousy, until, in one of the most deeply moving scenes in theatrical history, the noble Moor destroys the woman he lovesonly to discover too late that she was innocent.
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