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Othello

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Englisch-deutsche Studienausgabe

Othello

Deutsche Prosafassung, Anmerkungen, Einleitung und Kommentar von Balz Engler.
Stauffenburg Verlag

Commentary to the bilingual edition in English

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on-line editions

Othello: Quarto (1622), Folio (1623) [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Annex/DraftTxt/Oth/index.html]

Folio (1623), University of Virginia [http://etext.virginia.edu/shakespeare/folio/]

Renascence Editions, modernised spelling - plain text version [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/shake/othello.html]

Promptbooks of the 17th Century ed. G. Blakemore-Evans. [http://etext.virginia.edu/bsuva/promptbook/] (25/04/01)

audio excerpts

Othello (audio excerpt, 1966) Othello: Laurence Olivier, Duke of Venice: Harry Lomax (to listen, click at scene picture from Knight's Imperial Edition) at: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html] (Jan. 2002)

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translations

Modern Shakespeare: Shakespeare in modern English, by Walter Saunders [http://www.shakespeare2000.com/index.html] (May 2002)

Othello, Deutsche Übersetzung, Christoph Martin Wieland [http://projekt.gutenberg.de/shakespr/othello/othello.htm] (May 2002)

Othello, Deutsche Übersetzung, Wolf Graf Baudissin [http://projekt.gutenberg.de/shakespr/othello1/othello.htm] (May 2002)

Othello Dutch translation. by Jan Jonk. [http://www.janjonk.nl/] (March 2002)

Othello in French / en français, trad. Victor Hugo

Otello, Shakespeare in Italian, transl. Goffredo Raponi: [http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/s/shakespeare/index.htm]

Otello / Othello Italian version (PDF-file) [http://infoservice.dnsq.org/sh-tragedie.html]

Afonso, Maria João da Rocha. "Jealousy in Venice - The First Printed Version of a Shakespeare Text in Portuguese
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sources

Cinthio, Giraldi. Hecatommithi (111,7) - a source for Othello, translated by J. E. Taylor 1855,
also at: [http://www.clicknotes.com/othello/Osource.html]

Plinius, Naturalis Historia (in Latin) [http://patriot.net/~lillard/cp/pliny1.html]

not available:
Certaine Tragicall Discourses of Bandello, trans. Geoffrey Fenton, 1567
The Generall Historie of the Turkes, Richard Knolles, 1603

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productions, performances

a) stage history:

Othello in productions from 1814-1919 (Keane, Brooke, Salvini, Barrett, Robertson etc.) [http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/othello2.htm]

Current and forthcoming Shakespeare productions in the UK [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/performance/shakespeare%20productions.html] (April 2002)

The Traffic on Stage (Shakespeare Productions 1999 - 2002 in the UK) [http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/testjon3/] (April 2002)

Shakespeare at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (1906-1960) [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/Birmingham/home.html] (April 2002)

New Shakespeare Company online exhibition (from 1962 onwards, history, photographs, programmes, theatre architecture etc.) [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/NSC/home.html] (April 2002)

b) actors, pictures of performances:

The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs by Lesley Ellen Jorbin. Free searchable database for pictures of performances: photographs from the plays of Shakespeare on stage, screen, TV, opera and ballet. [http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/] includinc 40 pictures of Othello [http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/tragedy.shtml](Jan. 2002)

Aldridge, Ira (1807-67), the "African Roscius" [http://www.bridgesweb.com/aldridge.html] biography and pictures [http://library.thinkquest.org/10854/aldridge.html]

Allen, Viola. Shakespeare's Heroines. (1906) with picture as Desdemona [http://www.classicaltheatre.com/id20.htm]

Bent, Geoffrey. Three Green-Eyed Monsters. Acting as applied Criticism in Shakespeare's Othello. Antioch Review, 1998. Welles, Olivier, Finlay, Branagh. [http://web.archive.org/web/*/] + [http://www.britannica.com/bcom/magazine/article/0,5744,205775,00.html] (May 2002)

Junius Brutus Booth As Posthumus and Iago (1865) [http://www.classicaltheatre.com/id27.htm]

Kean as Othello [http://parnaseo.uv.es/Ars/Imagenes/Actores/53.htm]

Laurence Olivier as Othello (audio excerpt, 1966) Duke of Venice: Harry Lomax (to listen, click at scene picture from Knight's Imperial Edition) at: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html] (Jan. 2002)

Paul Robeson and Peggy Ashcroft, London 1930. [http://scc01.rutgers.edu/njh/PaulRobeson/Othello.htm]

Patrick Stewart as Othello [http://www.shakespearedc.org/stewart1.html], or: [http://www.towson.edu/~gist/othello.htm]

c) reviews of productions

Broadway, 1970, 1982.

Pilkington, Ace G. Othello's Stature: Three Filmed Versions of the Moor (Originally published in Encyclia, Vol. 68, 1991) Burge-Olivier, Jonathan Miller (BBC) and Bard [http://dsc.dixie.edu/shakespeare/othelloess.htm] (May 2002)

Jude Kelly's production (Washington DC, 1997 - 1998) [http://www.shakespearedc.org/othasi.html] with Patrick Stewart as Othello [http://www.shakespearedc.org/stewart1.html], or: [http://www.towson.edu/~gist/othello.htm]

Richard MacCabe, Iago in RSC production 1999/2000 [http://www.richardmccabe.co.uk/othello.htm]
Coursen, H. R. "The PBS Othello: A Review Essay" Shakespeare Bulletin, winter 2002. [http://www.shakespeare-bulletin.org/issues/winter02/coursen.html] (July 2002)

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film versions

International Movie Database [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Shakespeare,+William]
Shakespeare on Television: a bibliography of criticism [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/diazbibl.htm]
2000 - now

Hotel O (adult film, US 2002)

Iago dir. Domanig, Stephanus. (TV, Austria 2000, 53 min.) Othello is a conductor working on the production of Verdi's Otello. In the role of Desdemona he casts his girlfriend Desdemona. Uses a 1974 recording dir. by Herbert von Karajan [http://www.imz.at/VTVA/VTVA00/vtva00entpb.htm] (Aug. 2001)

O (USA, 2000; An update of 'Othello' with a teen cast, and set in a high school.) dir. Tim Black Nelson. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0184791]

Othello (2001) dir. Geoffrey Sax. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0275577]
Hopkins, Lisa M. Othello, adapted for TV by Andrew Davies (Directed by Geoffrey Sax. With Richard Coyle as Michael Cass, Christopher Eccleston as Ben Jago, Keeley Hawes as Dessie Brabant, and Eamonn Walker as John Othello.) Review in: Early Modern Literary Studies 8.1 (May 2002) [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/08-1/othelrev.htm]

1990-1999

Othello, Dangerous Desire (porn film 1998). dir. Joe d'Amato

Kaliyattam (India, 1997) dir. Jayaraaj Rajasekharan Nair [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0199669]

Othello, (UK, USA 1995) dir. Olivier Parker. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0114057] - script to download [http://www.un-official.com/The_Daily_Script/othello.doc]
Review by Alan Stone [http://www.cx.unibe.ch/ens/cg/shak/oth/art/stone.html]
Dorval, Patricia. Shakespeare on Screen: Threshold Aesthetics in Oliver Parker's Othello, article in EMLS 6.1 (with video cliops, Quick Time) [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/dorvothe.htm]

Otello (UK, 1992; Verdi's opera) dir. Brian Large [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0256244]

1980 - 1989

Otello (Italy, USA 1986; Verdi's opera ) Franco Zeffirelli [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0091699]

Othello, el comando negro | Black Commando (Spain, 1982) dir. Max H. Boulois [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0084453]

Othello (USA 1981) (V) dir. Franklin Melton [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0082862]

Othello (UK, 1981) (BBC, TV) dir.Jonathan Miller [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0082861]
Pilkington, Ace G. Othello's Stature: Three Filmed Versions of the Moor (Originally published in Encyclia, Vol. 68, 1991) Burge-Olivier, Jonathan Miller (BBC) and Bard [http://dsc.dixie.edu/shakespeare/othelloess.htm] (May 2002)

Othello (USA; 1980) dir. Liz White [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0081287]

1960 - 79

Othello (USA; 1979) (V) http://us.imdb.com/Title?0079683]

Otello (Italy, 1976) (TV) (opera, Verdi) with Placido Domingo and Mirella Freni [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0260254]

Catch My Soul / Santa Fe Satan (1974) (Othello, musical) dir. McGoohan, Patrick. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0071289]

Otello (Germany, 1973) (opera, Verdi) Herbert von Karajan, John Vickers [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0249859]

Othello (UK, 1965) dir Burge, Stuart. With Laurence Olivier [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0059555]
Pilkington, Ace G. Othello's Stature: Three Filmed Versions of the Moor (Originally published in Encyclia, Vol. 68, 1991) Burge-Olivier, Jonathan Miller (BBC) and Bard [http://dsc.dixie.edu/shakespeare/othelloess.htm] (May 2002)

Othello (France, 1962) dir. Barma, Claude. with Francine Bergé, Daniel Sorano [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0056317]

All Night Long (UK, 1961) (play Othello) (uncredited) dir. Dearden, Basil. Jazz film, with Richard Attenborough, Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingues etc. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0054614]

Otelo (USSR, 1960) (play Othello) dir. Chabukiani, Vakhtang [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0054438] also known as: The Ballet of Othello / The Moor of Venice / Venetsyanskij mavr

1946-1959

Otello colour m. (USSR, 1955) dir. Yutkevich, Sergei [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0048455]

Othello (UK, 1955) (TV) dir. Richardson, Tony. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0048456]

The Tragedy of Othello The Moor of Venice (USA, Italy, France, Morocco 1952) dir. Welles, Orson. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0045251]

Othello (1950) (TV) dir. Sheldon, Kevin [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0042816]

Othello (UK, 1946) short film (45 min.) dir. MacKane, David [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0038812]

silent films

Othello silent m. (Germany, 1922) dir. Buchowetzki, Dimitri. with Emil Jannings [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0013469]

Othello silent m. (Germany, 1918) dir. Mack, Max. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0013469]

Otello (Italy, 1914) dir. Frusta, Arrigo [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0004438]

Otello (Italy, 1909) dir. Falena, Ugo [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0000998]

Othello / Jealousy (USA, 1908) dir. Ranous, William V. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0000734]

Otello (Italy, 1907) dir. Caserini, Mario [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0000609]

Othello (Germany, 1907) dir. Porten, Franz [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0000610]

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adaptations in literature

Titles from Othello [http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake/othello.html]

Boito, Arrigo. (1842-1918) Otello (libretto for Verdi)
[http://www.giuseppeverdi.it/verdi/opere-41.htm];
page on Boito [http://www.giuseppeverdi.it/verdi/librettisti-boito.htm]

Carlin, Murray. Not Now, Sweet Desdemona. (play) 1968.

Gwynn, R. S. "Iago To His Torturers" from: R. S. Gwynn. The Drive-In. University of Missouri Press, 1986 (on this site)

Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare: Othello [http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/lambtales/LTOTHELL.HTM]
Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales, ill. by Arthur Rackham [http://209.11.144.65/eldritchpress/cml/tfs.html] (May 2002)
Lamb, Tales, ill. by Gertrude Hammond (1878) [http://www.bartleby.com/1012/]
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MacDonald, Ann-Marie. Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). (play) 1990. (also Romeo and Juliet)
Mitchell, Ken and Humphrey and the Dumptrucks. Cruel Tears. (play) 1977.

Nesbit, Edith. Beautiful Tales from Shakespeare

Sears, Djanet. Harlem Duet. (play) 1996

Tybern, Gen. Iago (libretto 1996) [http://members.aol.com/tybrnopera/main.html]

Vogel, Paula. Desdemona: A Play About A Handkerchief. (play) 1977.

adaptations in popular novels and romances: Balogh, Mary. Christmas Belle; Beverley, Jo. The Stanforth Secrets; Caroll, Susan. The Lady Who Hated Shakespeare; Heyer, Georgette. Venetia commented by Osborne, Laurie, Romancing the Bard [http://www.colby.edu/personal/l/leosborn/POPSHAK/]

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adaptations in music

Blacher, Boris (1903-1975) Der Mohr von Venedig, ballet [http://www.karadar.it/Works/blacher.html]
Dvorak, Antonin. (1841-1904) Othello, ouverture, op. 93. 1891. [http://www.karadar.com/Dictionary/dvorak.html]
Dvorak, Antonin. (1841-1904) Othello, ouverture, op. 93. 1891. [http://www.americansymphony.org/dialogues_extensions/93_94season/1st_concert/dvorak.cfm] (May 2002)

Rossini, Giacomo. Otello., opera, 1816. Libretto in Italian. [http://php.indiana.edu/~lneff/libretti/rotello1.html]

Tybern, Gen Iago, opera (libretto, 1996), [http://members.aol.com/tybrnopera/main.html]

Verdi, Giuseppe: Otello, 1887. libretto by Arroigo Boito. and here: [http://www.giuseppeverdi.it/verdi/opere-41.htm] (May 2001)
Giuseppe Verdi, Otello; libretto for Zeffirelli film and complete version

Zumsteeg, Johann Rudolf, Othello, Songs: see [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]

Songs (Willow etc.): see [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]

Loewe, Johann Karl Gottfried (1796-1869), Songs: see [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]

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paintings, engravings, illustrations

Shakespeare illustrated

Boydell, copperplate Act II.1 (1803) [http://www.graphic-photo.de/0146.html]; Act V.2 (Desdemona asleep) [http://www.graphic-photo.de/0150.html] Act V.2 (a bedchamber) [http://www.graphic-photo.de/0147.html]

Allen, Viola. Shakespeare's Heroines. (1906) with picture as Desdemona [http://www.classicaltheatre.com/id20.htm]

Chasseriau, Theodore. 1819-1856 Othello, 3 etchings 1844 [http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/prints/bysubject/display00144.html] (May 2002)

Colin, Alexandre Marie. Othello and Desdemona. 1829 [http://www.europeanpaintings.com/exhibits/romantic/colinoth.htm]
also at: [http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake/othello.html]

Cope, C.W. "Othello relating his adventures", (picture from Knight's Imperial Edition) at: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html] (Jan. 2002)

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criticism

Adams, John Quincy. (American President) The Character of Desdemona (1863) [http://www.classicaltheatre.com/id14.htm]

Afonso, Maria João da Rocha. "Jealousy in Venice - The First Printed Version of a Shakespeare Text in Portuguese
"

Bradley, A. C. on Othello in Shakespearean Tragedy (1904) [http://sunflower.singnet.com.sg/~yisheng/notes/shakespeare/othello_b.htm]
Bradley, A.C., Shakespearean Tragedy, 1905. on-line edition with notes. (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth) [http://www.clicknotes.com/bradley/]

Braxton, Antony. "Moor or less"

Bennett, Robert. "Redemption and Damnation: Measure for Measure and Othello As Contrasting Paired Visions" SRASP (1996) http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1996.html]

Bent, Geoffrey. Three Green-Eyed Monsters. Acting as applied Criticism in Shakespeare's Othello. Antioch Review, 1998. Welles, Olivier, Finlay, Branagh. [http://web.archive.org/web/*/] + [http://www.britannica.com/bcom/magazine/article/0,5744,205775,00.html] (May 2002)

Epstein, Paul. The Purgation of the Hero in Shakespearean Tragedy. (Hamlet, Lear, Othello, Macbeth) [http://www.mun.ca/animus/1998vol3/epstein3.htm]

Essays on Othello [http://www.shakespeare-online.com/essays/othelloessays.asp] (May 2002)

Findlay, Isobel. Just Expression: Interdisciplining the Law and Literature . [http://www.cx.unibe.ch/ens/cg/shak/oth/art/findlay.html]

Gilchrist, K. J. "Approximations: Iago as a Plautine leno." SRASP (1997)

Glass Hancock, Nancy. Picturing Desdemona: Verbal Imagery, iconography and screen. [http://www.folger.edu/institute/visual/pmabsnh.html] (Jan. 2002)

Jones, Millard T. Press-variants and Proofreading in the first Quarto of Othello (1622) Studies in Bibliography, 1974

Locket, Joseph. "'That Which Heaven Hath Forbid the Ottomites': The Turks in Shakespeare's Othello": [http://www.io.com/~jlockett/Grist/English/othello.html]

Maitland, Kristine. Defining "Moor" [http://www.cx.unibe.ch/ens/cg/shak/oth/art/maitland.html]

Moulton: From The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors, ed. Charles Wells Moulton, 8 vols. (London: Moulton Publishing, 1901), 1: 510-14. [http://geocities.com/litpageplus/shakmoul-othello.html]

Rizvi, Pervez. "Evidence of Revision in Othello." Published in Notes and Queries, September 1998. Shaksper webpage: [http://ws.bowiestate.edu/archives/files/index.html]

Shakespeare on Television: a bibliography of criticism [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/diazbibl.htm]

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in the classroom

see also on this site: Education - Shakespeare in the classroom

a) lesson plans (for the lazy teacher)

Folger Lesson Plans Archive [http://www.folger.edu/education/getarchive.cfm] (Jan. 2002)

Othello [http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-3755.html] (May 2002)

Beekley, Jenny. Fear And Loathing lesson plan (Folger) . [http://www.folger.edu/education/lesson.cfm?lessonid=66] (Jan. 2002)

Cavazos_Kottke, Sean. Othello's Predecessors in Renaissance Popular Literature. lesson plan (Folger) [http://www.folger.edu/education/lesson.cfm?lessonid=61] (Jan. 2002)

Cummings, Michael. The Complete Shakespeare - Study Guide to Shakespeare. [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#top] (Jan. 2002) Othello [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#topOthello.html]

Field-Pickering, Janet. Divinity of Hell: Soliloquies, Cutting and Computers. lesson plans (Folger) [http://www.folger.edu/education/lesson.cfm?lessonid=4] (Jan. 2002)

Fitzgerald, Tom. Words, Words, Words. lesson plan. (Folger) [http://www.folger.edu/education/lesson.cfm?lessonid=29] (Jan. 2002)

Glass Hancock, Nancy. Picturing Desdemona: Verbal Imagery, iconography and screen. [http://www.folger.edu/institute/visual/pmabsnh.html] (Jan. 2002)

James, Debora D. Othello, Penguin Classics Teacher's Guide. [http://www.penguinclassics.com/US/resources/teachers_guides/t_shakespeare_othello.html] (Jan. 2002)

Johnson-Haddad, Miranda and Caroline McManus. Moors, Jews, and the Performance of Cultural Identity: Teaching Othello and The Merchant of Venice in the Diverse Urban Classroom
http://web.archive.org/web/*/] + [http://www.tamut.edu/english/folgerhp/Projects.html/mcmaproj.html (May 2002)

Kochman, Susan. Othello: Lesson Plans Folger [http://www.folger.edu/education/lesson.cfm?lessonid=58] (Jan. 2002)

Marx, Steven. Triangulating Shakespeare: teaching and lecture notes, course outlines, articles, links, suggestions, film reviews

Massi, JM. study questions. [http://www.jetlink.net/~massij/wssq/othello.html] (25/04/01)

Shakespeare Magazine Teaching Resources. Othello. (Paraphrase Game, Act II.2) [http://www.shakespearemag.com/tr.asp?id=29] (Jan. 2002)

Weller, Philipp: Othello Navigator [http://www.clicknotes.com/othello/]

Wolfrod, Linda. Othello's Father of the Bride. lesson plan (Folger) [http://www.folger.edu/education/lesson.cfm?lessonid=36] (Jan. 2002)

Shakespeare- For Teachers and Students: Internet School Library Media Centre Lesson Plans. [http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/shakes.htm#D71] (Jan . 2002)

TeachersFirst Web Resources, Othello. [http://www.teachersfirst.com/shakespr.shtml#othello] (Jan. 2002)

Ulen, Amy. Surfing with the Bard: Lesson Plans [http://www.ulen.com/shakespeare/teachers/lessons/lessons.html]

b) for the eager student

All Shakespeare, Othello Guide [http://www.allshakespeare.com/plays/othello/start.shtml]with bibliography

Shakespeare- For Teachers and Students Internet School Library Media Centre [http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/shakes.htm#D7]. (Jan. 2002)

Cummings, Michael. The Complete Shakespeare - Study Guide to Shakespeare. [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#top] (Jan. 2002) Othello [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#topOthello.html]

Toshack, H. S. Othello. A Study Commentary. English Literature Study Guides (Grades 11-13/ Sixth Form/ International Baccalaureate / US Advanced Placement / UK GCE Advanced Level) [http://www.litworks.com] (March 2002)

Classic Notes [http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/othello/]
Spark Notes [http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/othello/] (Jan. 2002)
Clicknotes Weller, Philipp: Othello Navigator [http://www.clicknotes.com/othello/] (Jan. 2002)

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deutsche Webseiten

Andriz, Rod. Othello. Hintergründe und Informationen. [http://www.freunde.imperium.de/andriz/shakespeare/fo_otello.htm]

Gröchel, André: William Shakespeare - Othello: Informationen zu Quellen, Einführung ins Stück, Hintergründe [http://deslit.de/shakespeare/othello.htm]
Falls dieser Link nicht klappt: [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.deslit.de/shakespeare/othello.htm]



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Just for Fun

ultra-short version, Book-a-Minute Classics, Ultra-Condensed by Samuel Stoddard and David J. Parker [http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/shakespeare.othello.shtml]

Othello - The Board Game. (Mattel) [http://www.mattelothello.com/] (Jan. 2002)

Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow.
Just declaim a few lines from "Othella",
And they'll think you're a helluva fella.

("BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE" from Kiss me, Kate, music: Cole Porter; lyrics: Sam and Bella Spewack)

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