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William Shakespeare, edited by Lawrence Mason

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THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO

THE MOOR OF VENICE

EDITED BY
LAWRENCE MASON

NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Copyright, 1918
By Yale University Press
Printed in the United States of America

First published, January, 1918
Second printing, October, 1920
Third printing, August, 1925
Fourth printing, October, 1929

TABLE OF CONTENTS
	PAGE
The Text	1
Act I	1
Act II	28
Act III	55
Act IV	85
Act V	110
Notes	132
Appendix A. Sources of the Play	144
Appendix B. The History of the Play	150
Appendix C. The Text of the Present Edition	156
Appendix D. Suggestions for Collateral Reading	158
Index of Words Glossed	160

The facsimile opposite represents the title-page of the Elizabethan Club copy of the first quarto edition. Thirteen copies of this edition are known to survive.

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Wilbur L. CrossTucker Brooke

Willard Higley Durham

Published under the Direction

of the

Department of English, Yale University

on the Fund

Given to the Yale University Press in 1917

by the Members of the

Kingsley Trust Association

To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary

of the Founding of the Society

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