{"product_id":"the-first-quarto-of-othello-hardback-9780521562577","title":"The First Quarto of Othello (Hardback) 9780521562577","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe First Quarto of Othello\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 2001 book presents the first modernized and edited version of the 1622 Othello.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam Shakespeare (Author), Scott McMillin (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521562577, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 August 2001\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e160 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.9 x 1.8 cm, 0.417 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… groundbreaking in the specific area it covers …' Lukas Erne, University of Geneva\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 2001 book presents the first modernized and edited version of the 1622 Othello. By taking this earliest published version of Othello as a book in its own right, Scott McMillin accounts for the mystery of its thousands of differences from the Folio version by arguing that the Quarto was printed from a theatre script reflecting cuts and actors' interpolations made in the playhouse. McMillin explains that the playhouse script was apparently taken from dictation by a scribe listening to the actors themselves, and thus reveals how Othello was spoken in seventeenth-century performance. This edition, which consists of a detailed introduction, quarto text, select collation and textual notes, is an important book for scholars in Shakespeare and Elizabethan-Jacobean drama, with wide ramifications for other Shakespeare textual studies and for students of early theatre history.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations and conventions\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: the textual problem\u003cbr\u003e Q1 and foul papers\u003cbr\u003e Greg sets the standard\u003cbr\u003e Economy in the New Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Revision or abridgement\u003cbr\u003e New evidence of foul papers?\u003cbr\u003e Grounds for doubt\u003cbr\u003e Walkley, Okes and the 'Cameron Group'\u003cbr\u003e Punctuation\u003cbr\u003e Compositorial prudence\u003cbr\u003e Scribal punctuation and the Barnavelt Manuscript\u003cbr\u003e Other King's-Men plays, 1619–22\u003cbr\u003e Actors' interpolations\u003cbr\u003e Listening\u003cbr\u003e Dictation in the theatres\u003cbr\u003e Mislineation\u003cbr\u003e Playhouse scripts\u003cbr\u003e Summary\u003cbr\u003e Date of the Q1 playscript\u003cbr\u003e Editorial procedure\u003cbr\u003e The Play.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Shakespeare plays [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Shakespeare plays\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Shakespeare%20plays%20%5BDDS%5D%22\"\u003eDDS\u003c\/a\u003e], Theatre studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theatre studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theatre%20studies%20%5BAN%5D%22\"\u003eAN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004960559384,"sku":"9780521562577","price":79.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521562577i_9967f3df-27c5-4bd8-af5a-9df67da39cdf.jpg?v=1691369807","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-first-quarto-of-othello-hardback-9780521562577","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}