Othello

Name: Othello
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781787249622

Author: William Shakespeare, Edith Nesbit

Series: Shakespeare Stories

Narrator: Josh Verbae

Unabridged: 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Interactive Media

Published: 11/16/2018

Categories: Fiction, Drama, Classic, Psychological

Synopsis

The story revolves around its two central characters: Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army and his unfaithful ensign, Iago. This is one of the most prolific Shakespeare works featuring themes of passion, jealousy, love, betrayal, revenge and repentance. This edition of 'Othello' is an adaptation of Shakespeare's eponymous drama, narrated in plain modern English, capturing the very essence and key elements of the original Shakespeare's work. Read in English, unabridged.

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

I have always admired this play as Shakespeare's most theatrical tragedy, but I also feel that it often veers too close to melodrama. Shaw remarked that Othello is written "in the style of Italian opera," and it shares with Verdi and Donizetti the same big emotions, the same clear demarcation of goo......more

Goodreads review by Nayra.Hassan

عندما نقابل الحسد و المكائد بالغباء..فنحن نستحق كل ما سيقع على رؤسنا من مصائب عطيل قائد حربي بدوي مغربي نزح إلى البندقية..وقع في حب ديدمونةالشابة الإيطالية الجميلة..بادلته حبه بحب اكبر تزوجا.. و لكن هل هناك من سيصدق أنهما عاشا طويلا في تبات و نبات؟..لا طبعا فنحن مع شكسبير هنا يحسدهما ياجو الخبيث صديق ع......more

Goodreads review by Dr. Appu

Othello is considered not only the greatest of Shakespeare's tragedies but also the timeliest. This might be a play written hundreds of years ago, but all the themes discussed in it are even entirely relevant today. We can see multiple manipulation levels, betrayal, jealousy, and even racism in this......more