Othello, by William Shakespeare, is part of the Barnes & Noble Shakespeareseries. This unique series features newly edited texts prepared by leading scholars from America and Great Britain, in collaboration with one of the world's foremost Shakespeare authorities, David Scott Kastanof Columbia University. Together they have produced texts as faithful as possible to those that Shakespeare wrote. Each volume in the Barnes & Noble Shakespeareincludes: One of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies, Othello's portrayal of jealousy and deception remains as shocking today as when it was first written. The editor, Daniel Vitkus, provides an illuminating context for the play, meticulously reconstructing how Shakespeare's audience might have perceived a tragedy with a black protagonist.