Part of: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (The Oxford Shakespeare) Othello the Moor of Venice

Shakespeare’s Othello has always been an interesting play, but its considerations of race, rank, and romance may have become more interesting as our cultural contexts have changed around it. This edition comes from the 1916 Oxford University Press edition of all of Shakespeare’s plays and poems.

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (The Oxford Shakespeare), ed. with a glossary by W.J. Craig M.A. (Oxford University Press, 1916).

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