The first quarto of Othello
By: edited by Scott McMillin.
Contributors: McMillin, Scott.
Series: New Cambridge Shakespeare; Early quartos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Othello (Fictitious character) -- Drama; Muslims -- Drama; Venice (Italy) -- Drama; Cyprus -- Drama
Genres: Drama.
Description: "This is the first modernized and edited version of the 1622 Othello. By taking this earliest published version of Othello as a book in its own right, Scott McMillin accounts for the mystery of its thousands of differences from the Folio version by arguing that the Quarto was printed from a theatre script reflecting cuts and actors' interpolations made in the playhouse. McMillin explains that the playhouse script was apparently taken from dictation by a scribe listening to the actors themselves, and thus reveals how Othello was spoken in seventeenth-century performance." "This edition, which consists of a detailed introduction, quarto text, select collation and textual notes, is an important book for scholars in Shakespeare and Elizabethan-Jacobean drama, with wide ramifications for other Shakespeare textual studies and for students of early theatre history."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.