The Masks of Othello

In what is now considered a classic study, noted Shakespearean Marvin Rosenberg sets out to discover how the complex, troubled characters of the play have been interpreted by actors and critics from Shakespeare's time to the present. Rosenberg’s study of the successive stage editings of Othello—some of them to reduce playing time, others demanded by the taste and moral sense of each new age—provides a running commentary of social and cultural history, and shows how those cuttings affected, as we