Shakespeare's Invention of Othello: A Study of Early Modern English (Contemporary Interpretations of Shakespeare)

This book enters an old controversy in a new way-with a detailed examination of the whole text in both First Folio and First Quarto. Martin Elliott takes fully into account the fact that Shakespeare was writing in Early Modern English, a language frequently closer to Chaucer's English than to ours. Dr Elliott explores word-meanings and syntax and finds and extended consistency in Shakespeare's characterisation, one that admits the features of both Bradley's and Leavis's Moor.