Othello (1918) Yale

by William Shakespeare

For other versions of this work, see Othello (Shakespeare).

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∵ The Yale Shakespeare ∵

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THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO

THE MOOR OF VENICE

 

EDITED BY
LAWRENCE MASON

 

 

NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

 

Copyright, 1918
By Yale University Press
Printed in the United States of America

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First published, January, 1918
Second printing, October, 1920
Third printing, August, 1925
Fourth printing, October, 1929

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
	PAGE
The Text	1
⁠Act I	1
⁠Act II	28
⁠Act III	55
⁠Act IV	85
⁠Act V	110
Notes	132
Appendix A. Sources of the Play	144
Appendix B. The History of the Play	150
Appendix C. The Text of the Present Edition	156
Appendix D. Suggestions for Collateral Reading	158
Index of Words Glossed	160

 

The facsimile opposite represents the title-page of the Elizabethan Club copy of the first quarto edition. Thirteen copies of this edition are known to survive.

 

THE YALE SHAKESPEARE

 

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Edited by

Wilbur L. Cross⁠Tucker Brooke

Willard Higley Durham

 

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Published under the Direction

of the

Department of English, Yale University

on the Fund

Given to the Yale University Press in 1917

by the Members of the

Kingsley Trust Association

To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary

of the Founding of the Society