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NOTE: I inadvertently deleted the photos I took of the book during our in-class meeting at the library, thinking they were of another text that I didn't plan on using. By the time I realized my error, it was too late to request an appointment at the…

This is a poster advertising a performance of Othello in November 1836, nearly 232 years to the day after the first recorded performance of the play in 1604, at the Theatre Royal in London, England. What is of particular interest here is the identity…

These extracts, taken from the same text, provide a viewpoint into an interesting mentality at the time Othello was published. The author of the book claims that plays are not only immoral, but inherently unlawful if they include (among many other…

These two extracts, taken from the same work, are both valuable and interesting indications of the social climate at the time Othello was written (the text from which it hails was apparently published two years before Othello is thought to have been…

Even though it is not directly related to the geographical setting of Othello, this map of North America, published around the turn of the 17th century, helps a reader of Othello gain some understanding of the geographical mindset of the British…