{"product_id":"othello-12","title":"Othello","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"A drama . . . get[s] Yale\u0026amp;;s red-carpet treatment.\"\u0026amp;;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most powerful dramas ever written for the stage, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOthello\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a story of revenge, illusion, passion, mistrust, jealousy, and murder. If in Iago Shakespeare created the most compelling villain in Western literature, in Othello and Desdemona he gave us our most tragic and unforgettable lovers. This extensively annotated version of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOthello\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary, pronunciation, and prosody and provides alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations give readers all the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations. In his introduction, Raffel delves into the interpretive disagreement over \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOthello\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e's origins and provides an analysis of the characters Desdemona and Iago. In a concluding essay, Harold Bloom engages our attraction to both power and tragedy in his discussion of Iago, Shakespeare's \"radical invention.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clapping Pages","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":45231635169466,"sku":"32DDPYM0X-Used","price":49.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/5576\/0826\/files\/kojj.jpg?v=1760461681","url":"https:\/\/clappingpages.com\/products\/othello-12","provider":"Clapping Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}