∵ The Yale Shakespeare ∵
THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO
THE MOOR OF VENICE
EDITED BY
LAWRENCE MASON
NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Copyright, 1918
By Yale University Press
Printed in the United States of America
First published, January, 1918
Second printing, October, 1920
Third printing, August, 1925
Fourth printing, October, 1929
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | |
| PAGE | |
| The Text | 1 |
| Act I | 1 |
| Act II | 28 |
| Act III | 55 |
| Act IV | 85 |
| Act V | 110 |
| Notes | 132 |
| Appendix A. Sources of the Play | 144 |
| Appendix B. The History of the Play | 150 |
| Appendix C. The Text of the Present Edition | 156 |
| Appendix D. Suggestions for Collateral Reading | 158 |
| Index of Words Glossed | 160 |
The facsimile opposite represents the title-page of the Elizabethan Club copy of the first quarto edition. Thirteen copies of this edition are known to survive.
THE YALE SHAKESPEARE
Published under the Direction
of the
Department of English, Yale University
on the Fund
Given to the Yale University Press in 1917
by the Members of the
Kingsley Trust Association
To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary
of the Founding of the Society
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