This Norton Critical Edition includes:

*The First Folio text (1623).

* An introduction, explanatory footnotes, note on the text, and textual notes by Edward Pechter.

* Fifteen illustrations.

* Giraldi Cinthio's sixteenth-century story in its entirety, which Shakespeare used for both the plot and many details of Othello.

* A generous selection of interpretive responses to Othello from its origins to the present day, including-new to the Second

Edition-those by Stanley Cavell and Lois Potter. Edward Pechter's popular theatrical and critical overview of Othello has been significantly expanded.

* An updated Selected Bibliography.