Othello

Susan Snyder was scholar in residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Preface Joseph Price Introduction Susan Snyder 1. from A Treatise on the Passions Samuel Foote 2. from Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare Samuel Taylor Coleridge 3. Mr. Kean’s Iago William Hazlitt 4. Booth and Salvini in the Temptation Scene Edwin Booth and Edward T. Mason 5. from Shakespearean Tragedy A. C. Bradley 6. Desdemona Ellen Terry 7. from Stanislavsky Produces Othello Konstantin Stanislavsky 8. Desdemona’s Handkerchief John Middleton Murray 9. Diabolic Intellect and the Noble Hero: or, The Sentimentalist’s Othello F. R. Leavis 10. Othello: An Essay to Illustrate a Method Kenneth Burke 11. The Noble Moor Helen Gardner 12. Wit and Witchcraft: Thematic Form in Othello Robert B. Heilman 13. Barbarism and the City Alvin Kernan 14. Sexual Anxiety and the Male Order of Things in Othello Edward A. Snow 15. Patriarchal Territories: The Body Enclosed Peter Stallybrass