Othello Home Page

This is the Home Page for Othello. The page collects information about this work from across our site. Here you will find links to our edition; where available, you will also find links to graphic facsimiles of the books in which it was first published, a list of performances, relevant pages in the section on Shakespeare's Life and Times, and links to relevant sites on the Internet.

• Title Page
  • Othello (Folio 1, 1623)
    
  • Othello (Quarto 1, 1622)
    

List of book facsimiles containing the play Othello

• First Folio (1623)
  Brandeis University copy from Brandeis University Library
• First Folio (1623)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Second Folio (1632)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Third Folio (1664)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Fourth Folio (1685)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Othello, Quarto 1 (1622)
  Unknown copy from British Library, London

Pages from the "Life and Times" that discuss Othello

• Othello
  
• Discord and disorder
  
• Attitudes to women
  
• Othello and the Stage
  
• Time and the tragic hero: non-classical tragedy
  
• Magic and Darkness
  
• Religion and Suicide
  

List of performances related to Othello

• Shakespeare's World Cup (2002, Upstart Crow Theatre Group, Canada)
• Othello (1957, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Othello (1973, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Othello (1950, Delbert Mann, USA)
• Tragedy of Othello (1950, GB)
• Othello (1953, USA)
• Othello (1953, David Greene, Canada)
• Othello (1962, Claude Barma, France)
• Otello (1974, Mémé Perlini, Italy)
• Otello (1978, Kirk Browning, USA)
• Otello (1979, Carmelo Bene, Italy)
• In the Making: Theatre Design (1980, John Read, GB)
• Othello (1981, Jonathan Miller, GB)
• Otello (1982, Preben Montell, Italy)
• Otello (1984, Mario Martone, Italy)
• Otelo de Oliveira: Recriaca de Otelo, O Mouro de Venezia de William Shakespeare. [Othello] (1984, Paulo Afonso Grisolli, Brazil)
• Othello: The Moor of Venice (1985, Franklin Melton, USA)
• Filming Othello (1978, Orson Welles, West Germany)
• Making Shakespeare (1987, Brian Musgrove, GB)
• Otello (Germany)
• 94 more performances...

Summary list of artifacts related to the play Othello

• illustration artifacts (1)

Relevant links to other sites on the web

• Othello Penguin Classics Teachers' Guide
  James, Deborah. "Teachers' Guides: Othello: William Shakespeare." Penguin Classics Online. London: Penguin Books, 1995-2006.
• Approximations: Iago as a Plautine leno
  Gilchrist, K.J. "Approximations: Iago as a Plautine leno." West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Selected Papers (SRASP) 20 (1997). Gilchrist examines the characer of Iago in terms of Plautus' classical leno or pimp figure:
• "That Which Heaven Hath Forbid the Ottomites": The Turks in Shakespeare's Othello
  Locket, Joseph. "'That Which Heaven Hath Forbid the Ottomites': The Turks in Shakespeare's Othello." Grist for the Mill: Papers, Projects, and Positions. Briefly explores Othello in the context of relations between Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Period:
• Redemption and Damnation: Measure for Measure and Othello as Contrasting Paired Visions
  Bennett, Robert. "Redemption and Damnation: Measure for Measure and Othello As Contrasting Paired Visions." West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Selected Papers (SRASP) 19 (1996). Bennett presents Measure for Measure and Othello as the two sides of a cohesive statement about redemption and damnation: