the first of Shakespeare’s Jacobean tragedies, written during the reign of King James I (1603-25). (In Latin, the word for James is “Jacobus.”) the second, after Hamlet, of Shakespeare’s “four great tragedies.”
In the Renaissance, a novella (an Italian word that literally means “a little new thing”) was a short prose tale. In literature today, however, what is a novella?
Who wrote the Italian novella that was Shakespeare’s main source for Othello?
When did Shakespeare write Othello?
What is the full title of this play? In what sense does the title contain an oxymoron or contradiction in terms?
In Early Modern English, the word “Moor” could refer to either a black African or an Arab from Northern