This anthology of critical essays provides a wide range of information and opinion about the tragic play "Othello," and its author William Shakespeare.

The scene is a middle-class home in Piscataway, New Jersey, where Ozzie Ann (the mother) and Harry (the father) await the return of their Vietnam veteran son, David, and his native bride, Liat. Also on hand are younger brother Et, a sex-obsessed high school junior who eats cornflakes from his unzipped pants; and Hazel, the irrepressible black maid (portrayed by a male performer) who is the real power in the household. When David and Liat arrive they...

This series of lectures presents a study of Shakespeare's seven greatest tragedies from one of the world's foremost literary critics and authorities.