Othello, subtitled "the Moor of Venice", is a tragedy by William Shakespeare on themes of race, deception, jealousy, and murder.
Bibliographic notesAs with Shakespeare's other plays, there is no "original" manuscript or author-supervised publication of Othello. It was first published in quarto in 1622, six years after Shakespeare's death, and was published the following year in the First Folio of 1623, with significance differences from the earlier quarto. Texts from these and other sources were used to create subsequent editions of the play.
See also- Online books about Othello
- Wikipedia article about Othello
- Online books by or about William Shakespeare
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Othello (with annotations, scene index, and some source material), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Philip Weller, contrib. by Giambattista Cinzio Giraldi (HTML at Shakespeare Navigators) - Othello, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
- Othello (first quarto, 1622, and other copies, with commentary), by William Shakespeare (HTML and page images at uvic.ca)
- Othello (second quarto, 1630), by William Shakespeare (page images here at Penn)
- The Tragoedy of Othello, the Moore of Venice, As it Hath Beene Divers Times Acted at the Globe, and at the Black-Friers, by His Majesties Servants (fourth edition; London: Printed for W. Leak, 1655), by William Shakespeare (page images here at Penn)
- Othello (fourth quarto edition, 1681), by William Shakespeare (page images here at Penn)
- Othello, a Tragedy in Five Acts by Wm. Shakespeare: The Italian Version As Performed by Signor Salvini and His Italian Company During the American Tour, Under the Management of Mr. Maurice Grau (in Italian and English; New York: G. F. Nesbitt and Co., 1873), by William Shakespeare, contrib. by Tommaso Salvini
These are arranged by language, and then approximately by date of first publication.
- Othello (in Finnish), by William Shakespeare, trans. by Paavo Emil Cajander (Gutenberg text)
- Othello (in French), by William Shakespeare, trans. by François Guizot (Gutenberg text)
- Othello, der Mohr von Venedig (in German), by William Shakespeare, trans. by Christoph Martin Wieland (Gutenberg text)
- Othello (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
- Othello, the Moor of Venice: A Tragedy, As it Hath Been Divers Times Acted at the Globe, and at the Black-Friers, and Now at the Theatre Royal, by His Majesties Servants (London: Printed for R. Bentley, 1687), by William Shakespeare (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Othello, the Moor of Venice: A Tragedy, As it Hath Been Divers Times Acted at the Globe, and at the Black-Friers, and Now at the Theatre Royal, by His Majesties Servants (London: Printed for R. Bentley, 1695), by William Shakespeare (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Othello (based on the 1887 Victoria edition), by William Shakespeare, ed. by William George Clark and William Aldis Wright (multiple formats with commentary at Standard Ebooks)
- Othellos (Othello in Greek), by William Shakespeare, trans. by Dēmētrios Vikelas (Gutenberg text)
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