Connell Guide to Shakespeare's "Othello" Bradshaw Graham
Connell Guide to Shakespeare's "Othello" Bradshaw Graham With the exception of Hamlet, Othello is Shakespeare's most controversial play. Dr Johnson famously described the ending as "not to be…
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Connell Guide to Shakespeare's "Othello" Bradshaw Graham
With the exception of Hamlet, Othello is Shakespeare's most controversial play. Dr Johnson famously described the ending as "not to be endured", and H.H. It is also his most shocking.
No play in performance has prompted more outbursts from onlookers: there are many recorded instances of members of the audience actually trying to intervene to prevent Othello murdering Desdemona. Furness, after editing the Variorum edition of the play, confessed to wishing that "this tragedy had never been written". It is a more domestic tragedy than Hamlet, King Lear or Macbeth, and it is the intimacy of its subject matter which gives it its dramatic power.
Othello is a faithful portrait of life, wrote one anonymous Romantic critic. "Love and jealousy are passions which all men, with few exceptions, have at some time felt." Othello has also prompted more critical disputes than any other play except