Paperback, 442 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 1997 by Thomas Nelson and Sons.

ISBN:
9781903436455

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In a period of ten years, Shakespeare wrote a series of tragedies that established him, by universal consent, in the front rank of the world's dramatists. Critics have praised either "Hamlet" or "King Lear" as the greatest of these; Ernst Honigmann, in the most significant edition of the play for a generation, asks: why not "Othello"? The third of the mature tragedies, it contains, as Honigmann persuasively demonstrates, perhaps the best plot, two of Shakespeare's most original characters, the most powerful scene in any of the plays, and poetry second to none. Honigmann's cogent and closely argued introduction outlines the reasons both for a reluctance to recognize the greatness of "Othello" and for the case against the play.

This edition sheds new light on the text of the play as we have come to know it, and on our knowledge of its early history. Honigmann examines the thematic portrayal of …

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