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background of the author,work and genre;a summary and adetailed analysis of the plot;anexamination of the major characters;'test-yourself'questions;essay topicsand a select reading list.  \nNotes on  \nAdam Bede  \nAndrocles and the LionAnimal Farm  \nArms and the ManAs You Like It  \nCaesar and CleopatraChips with EverythingCider with RosieCoriolanus  \nDavid CopperfieldEmma  \nFar From the Madding CrowdGreat ExpectationsHamletHard Times  \nHigh Wind in JamaicaHuckleberry Finn  \nThe Importance of Being EarnestJane EyreJulius Caesar  \nJuno and the PaycockKing Henry IV part IKing Henry VKing LearKing Richard IlKing Richard IⅢLark Rise  \nLord of the FliesLutherMacbeth  \nContinued on inside back cover  \nou t    \n## OTHELLO\n\n1005  \n0115  \n## STUDY-AID SERIES\n\nNotes on William Shakespeare's0THELLO  \nMethuen Educational Ltd  \nLONDON·TORONTO·SYDNEY·WELLINGTON  \nFirst published by Methuen in 196g⑥College of Careers(Pty)Ltd,1967Reprinted with minor revisions 1973uenEucaional dII New Fetter Lane,London EC₄P ₄EEPrinted by Fletcher Son Ltd,Norwich  \nSBN 416132804  \nAll rights reserved.  \nNo part of this publication may be reproduced,stored ina retrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by anymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingor otherwise,without the priorpermission of the publisher.  \nNOTE:The Student using this publication in our Study-Aid series must clearly understand that these Notes inno way relieve him of the reading of the original text.They are designed only as an aid to the Student in hisown reading of the book for examination purposes.  \nCONTENTS  \nI SHAKESPEARE'S LIFE AND WORKS.        ·   1I SUGGESTIONS ON READING SHAKESPEARE .  .   5II GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE PLAY.          7IV WHAT THE PLAY IS ABOUT .   .  9  \nV SCENE-BY-SCENE SUMMARY OF THE PLAY:  \nAct I  \n\\#  \n·  \n·  \nAct II  \n·  \n·  \n·  \n*  \nAct III  \n·  \nAct IV  \n曲  \n册  \nAct V  \nVI“TEST YOURSELF”QUESTIONS(with Answers)  \nVII CHARACTERIZATION:  \nOthello—two conflicting viewpoints .  \nIago—embodiment of evil.  \n\"Motiveless malignity\"?.   .  \nCassio contrasted with Roderigo  \nThe Womenfolk    \nThe Minor Characters .  \n审  \nVIII SOME GENERAL OBSERVATIONS:  \nDramatic Structure and Movement .Oddities about the Duration of Time.The Symbolism of Othello's BehaviourLanguage and Imagery  .  \n.  \n\\#  \n审  \nIX REVISION EXERCISES:  \nContent Questions .   .  \nCritiques and Interpretations .  \n·  \nContext Questions .   \nx SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING .  \nNote:Line references throughout this Study-Aid are tothe“Arden Shakespeare”edition of Othello,edited by  \nM.R.Ridley and published by Methuen &Co.Ltd.,London  \n·  \n曲  \n11  \n13  \n16  \n20  \n23  \n26  \n29  \n32  \n33  \n36  \n37  \n40  \n43  \n44  \n45  \n46  \n49  \n50  \n51  \n53  \n100  \nSection I  \n## SHAKESPEARE’S LIFE AND WORKS\n\nWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE was christened in the prosperous market-town of Stratford-on-Avon,Warwickshire,on 26 April 1564;tradition-ally,his actual birthday was three days earlier,on St George's Day,the sameday as his death fifty-two years later.His father,John,was a respected middle-class trader,and his mother,Mary Arden,came from a family of locallandowners.It seems probable that young William received a fair education(for his day)at the local Grammar School;at the age of eighteen he married agirl eight years older than himself,Anne Hathaway,who gave him a child thefollowing year and twins in 1585.Little else is known of his early life,and sowe cannot tell what made him decide to leave Stratford in 1586 for London,where he stayed until 1611.In London he must soon have attracted attention,because by 1592 he was popular enough a writer and actor to be sneered at byan older dramatist as an uneducated jack-of-all-trades.He is mentioned asbeing among the principal actors of the city as early as 1598,and in 1599 wefind that he is a member of the company running the Globe 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