Shakespeare's Othello

Othello is one of Shakespeare's most concentrated major tragedies. Matt Simpson's exposition of the privotal role of Iago, the nature of Othello's and Desdemona's relationship - based on 'hope more than achievement' - and Shakespeare's achievement of race, is vigorous and challenging. Simpson shows how the play is of its time, providing knowledge of its context and meaning whilst persuading us also that Othello is, as Ben Jonson said, "for all time".

About the author:

Matt Simpson is the author of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest and Twelfth Night in the Student Guide Literary Series.

116  pages

ISBN: 978-1-871551-71-6