Shakespeare's othello - Graham Bradshaw

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• With the exception of Hamlet, Othello is Shakespeare's most controversial play.
• It is also his most shocking.
• Dr Johnson famously described the ending as not to be endured, and H.H.
• Furness, after editing the Variorum edition of the play, confessed to wishing that this tragedy had never been written.
• No play in performance has prompted more outbursts from onlookers: there are many recorded instances of members of the audience actually trying to intervene to prevent Othello murdering Desdemona.
• It is a more domestic tragedy than Hamlet, King Lear or Macbeth, and it is the intimacy of its subject matter which gives it its dramatic power.
• Othello is a faithful portrait of life, wrote one anonymous Romantic critic.
• Love and jealousy are passions which all men, with few exceptions, have at some time felt.
• Othello has also prompted more critical disputes than any other play except Hamlet.
• How could the hero possibly believe his wife had been unfaithful within a few days of their marriage?