Othello

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This volume of the new Arden edition is, unlike the same editor's Antony and Cleopatra (which was deliberately a ' revision'), a completely new editing of the play from the ground up, both textually and otherwise, except in so far as the present editor has felt free to incorporate his predecessor's notes when he sees fit.
The textual problem of Othello is one of the most interesting in the Shakespeare canon, and whereas his predecessor, in common with most other editors, based his text on the Folio, the present editor is a convinced ' Quarto-ite believing as he does that with the First Quarto we are as near as we can get to what Shakespeare first wrote, whereas we have no means of determining which of the Folio variants are Shakespeare's own second thoughts and which the would-be improvements or ' sophistications ' of the Folio editors. The problem is discussed at length in the Introduction.
In the notes the editor, apart from discussing the various cruces, aims at elucidating... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This volume of the new Arden edition is, unlike the same editor's Antony and Cleopatra (which was deliberately a ' revision'), a completely new editing of the play from the ground up, both textually and otherwise, except in so far as the present editor has felt free to incorporate his predecessor's notes when he sees fit.
The textual problem of Othello is one of the most interesting in the Shakespeare canon, and whereas his predecessor, in common with most other editors, based his text on the Folio, the present editor is a convinced ' Quarto-ite believing as he does that with the First Quarto we are as near as we can get to what Shakespeare first wrote, whereas we have no means of determining which of the Folio variants are Shakespeare's own second thoughts and which the would-be improvements or ' sophistications ' of the Folio editors. The problem is discussed at length in the Introduction.
In the notes the editor, apart from discussing the various cruces, aims at elucidating what may be obscure to the modern reader (sometimes honestly admitting defeat) and at illuminating the meaning by parallels from Shakespeare's own work rather than from that of his less well-known contemporaries.

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THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE
General Editors: dr h. f. brooks and professor harold jenkins
The well-known ARDEN EDITION of Shakespeare's Plays, founded over half a century ago, quickly established itself as a standard series of texts. But most of the volumes gradually became unobtainable, and all are now being revised and re-edited in the light of modern criticism and research.
For the reader and student who wants something more substantial than the school texts or the one-voliame " complete Shakespeares " the new Arden Shakespeare will prove the best possible edition of separate plays. The volumes already published are shown on the back flap of this jacket.
Forthcoming titles ^
as you like it
Edited by Frank Kermode
the comedy of errors
Edited by R. A. Foakes
coriolanus
Edited by J. P. Brockbank
hamlet
Edited by H. Jenkins
henry iv (Part 2)
Edited by A. R. Humphreys
henry vi (Parts i & 3)
Edited by A. S. Cairncross
measure for measure
Edited by J. Lever
the merry wives of windsor
Edited by William A. Armstrong
a midsummer night's dream Edited by A. Brown
much ado about nothing
Edited by A. Brown
pericles
Edited by F. D. Hoeniger
richard iii
Edited by H. F. Brooks
^omeo and juliet
Edited by John Crow
the taming of the shrew
Edited by J. R. Brown
troilus and cressida
Edited by Roy Walker and J. Palmer
twelfth night
Edited by J. M. Lothian
two gentlemen of verona
EdiUd by C. Leech
the winter's tale
Edited by J. H. P. Pafford Vissza