Othello: NHB Classic Plays

Scott Graham is Artistic Director of Frantic Assembly, co-founding the company in 1994. He has provided movement direction for shows at the Royal National Theatre, National Theatre Wales and Singapore Rep. With Steven Hoggett, he has written The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre (published by Routledge) and is Visiting Professor in Theatre Practice at Coventry University.
Steven Hoggett is a British choreographer and movement director. He was Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Frantic Assembly. With Scott Graham, he co-wrote The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre.

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The new introduction for the revised edition of Othello by Ayanna Thompson is a welcome reconsideration of the 1997 original Arden3 edition . Thompson's introduction recognizes and incorporates the vast critical world of early modern race studies that has developed in the past twenty years . [It] is wide-ranging yet absolutely clear, providing a new frame for the play that students and academics alike will find useful for years to come . The superb introduction . opens new avenues of research and frames the play in ways that bring it up to date with the latest scholarship.
By far and away the best edition of this play that I've read for use in the classroom. Thompson's introduction is impeccably well judged, and hits the ground running with precisely the kinds of generic and moral concerns that are so fruitful in tutorial- and/or seminar-based discussion. The illustrations are well chosen ... and the exploration of 'moorishness' in its myriad manifestations is exemplary. The balance of annotation to text is also well done, and I have no reservations or hesitations at all about requiring students to read this enriching and vibrant edition.

Ayanna Thompson is a leading scholar in the field of Shakespeare, gender and race. She is the first female to edit the play in any of the major series of play editions