The central characters are caught in a terrifying vortex of their own making and perhaps their own desire. This is a play about fascination - fascination in love, fascination and jealousy, fascination and death. This is not a play about the helpless victim Desdemona falling to the cruelty of her husband and treachery of Iago.
However, like so many of Shakespeare's greatest plays, it is a work much misunderstood. OTHELLO might be the finest play ever written. OTHELLO was written by Shakespeare at the height of his powers, its poetry is finer than HAMLET, its psychology deeper than MACBETH, its love story more compelling than ROMEO AND JULIET, its heartbreaking tragedy more moving than KING LEAR. OTHELLO is a thriller, a love story, a tragedy and an exploration of race, prejudice, power, war and human folly. Joseph Pearce situates the reader with the introductory essay.OTHELLO is Shakespeare's most perfect play, a masterpiece of dramatic construction.
" Othello as Meta-Drama" – Peter Milward, S.J."Shakespeare's Othello and Man's Fallen Nature" – Michael M."Some Observations on Othello, Act 1" – Michael Hanke."The Unreason of Iago: A Close Reading of the Beginning of Othello" – Jay Graham."Is Venice in Shakespeare's Othello a Racist Society?" – Robert C."'A Monstrous Birth' Brought 'to the World's Light': The Assault on Authority and the Darkening of the Soul in Othello" – Robert Carballo.From the Machiavellian menace of Iago to the blind and prideful jealousy of Othello, this classic of world literature shows us the shadow falling over a society that has turned its back on the light and life of virtue. A cautionary tale of the destructiveness of sin and the ruinous consequences of bad philosophy, Othello seems to express Shakespeare's rage at the cynicism and brutality of the age in which he lived. One of the four great tragedies-alongside Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth– Othello is among the darkest of Shakespeare's plays, illumining the shadows of the gloomiest recesses of the human psyche and serving as a damning indictment of the world in which it was written.
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