Othello, the Moor of Venice.
Edited by Michael Neill.
Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford World's Classics.
Some other recent editions of Othello :
- William Shakespeare. Othello, Revised Edition. Edited by E.A.J. Honigmann. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - William Shakespeare. Othello. Edited by Edward Pechter. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - William Shakespeare. Othello, Third Edition. Edited by Norman Sanders. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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Editor: Michael Neill
- Michael Neill, Emeritus Professor, English and Drama, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
- Michael Neill was also Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of Kent.
- Michael Neill (b. 1942), OCLC WorldCat Entities.
- Neill, Michael, 1942-, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
- Sam Neill (b. 1947), Wikipedia; actor; brother of Michael Neill.
- Michael Neill, editor. John Ford: Critical Re-Visions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, 2010.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Michael Neill. Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Michael Neill. Putting History to the Question: Power, Politics, and Society in English Renaissance Drama. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
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(A collection of Neill's scholarly articles, at least three of which address Othello.) - Michael Neill and David Schalkwyk, editors. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
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- John Marston. The Selected Plays of John Marston. Edited by MacDonald P. Jackson and Michael Neill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - William Shakespeare. Anthony and Cleopatra. Edited by Michael Neill. The Oxford Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, 2008.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Philip Massinger. The Renegado. Edited by Michael Neill. Arden Early Modern Drama. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Thomas Kyd. The Spanish Tragedy. Edited by Michael Neill. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - John Webster. The Duchess of Malfi. Edited by Michael Neill. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - George Etherege. The Man of Mode. Edited by Michael Neill. Methuen Drama. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
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Wikipedia Articles:
Shakespeare and Othello :
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
- Othello, written sometime during the period 1602–1604; first documented performance 1604; first printed in 1622 (Quarto); also printed 1623 (First Folio).
- Chronology of Shakespeare's plays: Othello (1603–1604).
- Shakespearean tragedy.
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The narrative frame of Othello involves a Sixteenth Century general in the service of the Republic of Venice going on an expedition against an Ottoman naval fleet in the area of Cyprus.
While these large scale historical events provide a background for the events of the play, of course, they have little to do with the play's action and themes which focus on the personal machinations of the character Iago against his commander Othello.
Nevertheless, here are some articles that explain the historical Sixteenth Century conflict between Venice and the Ottoman Empire.
Presumably the original audiences of Othello, during the decade of the 1600s, had some historical awareness of the events of the 1570s. Indeed, editor Michael Neill writing in Appendix A "The Date of the Play" mentions (pages 399-400) that the new King James I was an avid student of the wars against the Turks having published in 1591 a poem about the Battle of Lepanto. And an important piece of evidence used in the dating of the composition of Othello is the 1603 publication of Richard Knolles' Generall Historie of the Turkes. So I think this history should not be ignored.
- Republic of Venice, 697–1797.
- Republic of Venice: 16th century: League of Cambrai, the loss of Cyprus, and Battle of Lepanto.
- Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573).
- Battle of Lepanto, 1571. ~~~~~~~~~~
- Ottoman wars in Europe: 1522–1573: Rhodes, Malta and the Holy League.
- Ottoman wars in Europe: 1570–1571: Conquest of Cyprus.
- Ottoman–Habsburg wars: War in the Mediterranean. ~~~~~~~~~~
- Ottoman Empire: Expansion and peak (1453–1566).
- Classical Age of the Ottoman Empire, 1453–1566.
- Ottoman Empire: Stagnation and reform (1566–1827).
- Transformation of the Ottoman Empire, Era of Transformation, c. 1550 to c. 1700.
- English Renaissance, 16th - 17th Centuries.
- English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
- Elizabethan literature.
- English literature: Jacobean period (1603–1625).
- English Renaissance theatre.
- Tudor period, 1485–1603.
- Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
- Elizabethan government.
- Elizabethan Religious Settlement.
- English society: Tudor society.
- Elizabeth I (1533–1603); Queen of England and Ireland 1558–1603.
- Elizabeth I: Later years.
- Stuart period, 1603–1714.
- Jacobean era, 1603–1625.
- James VI and I (1566–1625); King of Scotland as James VI 1567–1625; King of England and Ireland as James I 1603–1625.
- Early modern Britain, 16th – 18th Centuries.
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