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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      August 2019
      August 2001
      ISBN:
      9781316563977
      9780521562577
      9780521615945
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316563977
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.417kg, 160 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.25kg, 162 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Literary Texts
      Series:
      The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Literary Texts
    Series:
    The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos
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    This 2001 book presents the first modernized and edited version of the 1622 Othello. By taking this earliest published version of Othello as a book in its own right, Scott McMillin accounts for the mystery of its thousands of differences from the Folio version by arguing that the Quarto was printed from a theatre script reflecting cuts and actors' interpolations made in the playhouse. McMillin explains that the playhouse script was apparently taken from dictation by a scribe listening to the actors themselves, and thus reveals how Othello was spoken in seventeenth-century performance. This edition, which consists of a detailed introduction, quarto text, select collation and textual notes, is an important book for scholars in Shakespeare and Elizabethan-Jacobean drama, with wide ramifications for other Shakespeare textual studies and for students of early theatre history.

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    '… groundbreaking in the specific area it covers …'

    Lukas Erne - University of Geneva

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