William Shakespeare's Othello (1601-2) has delighted and disturbed theatre audiences for the past four centuries, and remains one of the most frequently performed and widely studied of his plays. This volume is a broad-ranging guide to Othello, providing an introduction to: the contexts of the play, through a concise, accessible overview, a chronology and reprinted documents from the period; the range of critical responses to the play, through a brief critical history and reprinted critical texts, accompanied by explanatory headnotes; and the play in performance, through a selection of...