Othello


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The Text

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Quizzes

Act I

Act II

Act III

Act IV

Act V

Stage / Film History

The History of Othello

Othello @ the Internet Movie Database

Othello in Performance

Paul Robeson as Othello

Review of Oliver Parker's Othello with Laurence Fishburne

Shakespeare on Screen: Threshold Aesthetics in Oliver Parker's Othello - Patricia Dorval
 

Web Sites

Absolute Shakespeare's Guide to Othello -- Plot summary, commentary, char. analysis

Analysis of Iago -- Essay

Bradley on Othello -- Critical essay on Shakespearean Tragedy by A. C. Bradley (1904)

The Character of Desdemona -- Essay by John Quincy Adams

Coleridge on Othello -- Famous critique based on Coleridge's notes and lectures

Critical Essays on Othello

Internet Shakespeare Edition -- Draft texts of the folio and quarto editions of the play

The Moral Geography of Othello -- Michael Flachmann

On the Strange History of Othello -- John Baker

Othello -- Shakespeare Resource Center

Othello, a Racist Play? -- Essay

Othello: Race, Place and Identity -- Analysis

Othello as forum for the condemnation of racial prejudice -- Essay

Press-variants and Proofreading in the First Quarto of Othello (1622), Millard T. Jones

Sources for Othello

"That Which Heaven Hath Forbid the Ottomites":
The Turks in Shakespeare's
Othello
- Joseph Locket

Ultra-short version of Othello -- Humor