Mr. Heilman looks at numerous aspects of 'action' (physical activity, psychological movement, intellectual operations) and 'language' (speech habits, image types, recurrency in both literal and figurative language), and examines the essentially 'dramatic' function of all of these. He finds the dramatis personae interwoven in relationships which may be seen, from one point of view, as 'plot' and, from another, as the embodiment of complex themes.

Presents essays written from the seventeenth through the early twenty-first centuries that offer an analysis and critique of "Othello," and includes a summary of the play and excerpts of key passages.

A landmark collection of essays from leading international scholars offering a variety of perspectives on Othello. In recent years, work on Othello has engaged every scholarly interest: textual studies, historicism, feminism, gender and sexuality studies, critical race studies, post-colonial studies, reception studies, and more.

Presents the text of Shakespeare's tragedy in which Othello, a Moorish general, is led by a jealous and evil ensign to believe his wife, Desdemona, has been unfaithful, and includes explanatory notes, background, critical essays, and other reference material.

Including twenty-one groundbreaking chapters that examine one of Shakespeare's most complex tragedies. Othello: Critical Essays explores issues of friendship and fealty, love and betrayal, race and gender issues, and much more.

This book presents selected writings representing a variety of perspectives on the social issue of race found in William Shakespeare's "Othello."

Calderwood examines the changing meaning of Elizabethan property ownership, and of the ownership of self as it pertains to Othello.

This invaluable reference guide to one of Shakespeare's greatest dramas offers a range of contemporary essays and critical viewpoints and is introduced by scholar Harold Bloom.