Othello Shakespeare, William; Coles, Jane and Gibson, Rex

A Moorish general. A manipulative ensign. A handkerchief that destroys a marriage. Shakespeare's Othello is a tragedy of jealousy so perfectly constructed it still feels suffocating four centuries later. Iago plants doubts about Desdemona's faithfulness that metastasize into murderous rage, and Othello — noble, trusting, fatally insecure — becomes the instrument of his own destruction. What makes this unbearable is how plausible it all is: the way paranoia feeds on itself, how quickly love curdles into violence, the poison of a single lie. This Cambridge School Shakespeare edition comes with notes and activities designed to make the language accessible without dumbing it down. For students tackling Shakespeare for the first time, or anyone who wants to revisit one of his darkest, most psychologically brutal plays.