This Norton Critical Edition includes:·The First Folio text (1623).· An introduction, explanatory footnotes, note on the text, and textual notes by Edward Pechter.· Fifteen illustrations.·
Giraldi Cinthio’s sixteenth-century story in its entirety, which Shakespeare used for both the plot and many details of Othello.· A generous selection of interpretive responses to Othello from
its origins to the present day, including—new to the SecondEdition—those by Stanley Cavell and Lois Potter. Edward Pechter’s popular theatrical and critical overview of Othello has been
significantly expanded.· An updated Selected Bibliography.
