Othello: Language and Writing

by Laurie Maguire

Overview

In this volume on Othello, Laurie Maguire examines the use and misuse of language, the play's textual and performance histories and how critics and directors have responded to the language of sexual jealousy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781408170670
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	04/24/2014
Series:	Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	302 KB

About the Author

Laurie Maguire is Professor of English at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK.
Laurie Maguire is Professor of English at Magdalen College, Oxford. Her research encompasses textual studies, editing, Elizabethan performance, classical influences on Renaissance writers, Elizabethan barbers and surgeons, contemporary performances of Shakespeare's plays, and feminist criticism.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1. Language in Print
2. Language: Forms and Uses
3. Language Through Time
4. Writing and Language Skills
Further Reading

Editorial Reviews

Readers should write immediately to Bloomsbury for an examination copy of this book. Many will want to adopt it in their courses, and everybody, to judge from my experience, will derive great quantities of pleasure and profit from reading it.” – Edward Pechter, Concordia University, Canada, The Shakespeare Newsletter

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