The First Quarto of Othello（ISBN=9780521615945）

　　This is the first modernized and edited version of the 1622 Othello. By taking this earliest published version of Othello as a book in its own right, Scott McMillin accounts for the mystery of its thousands of differences from the Folio version by arguing that the Quarto was printed from a theatre * reflecting cuts and actors' interpolations made in the playhouse. McMillin explains that the playhouse * was apparently taken from dictation by a scribe listening to the actors themselves, and thus reveals how Othello was spoken in seventeenth-century performance. This edition, which consists of a detailed introduction, quarto text, select collation and textual notes, is an important book for scholars in Shakespeare and Elizabethan-Jacobean drama, with wide ramifications for other Shakespeare textual studies and for students of early theatre history.
　　? The first modernized and edited version of the 1622 Othello ? Accounts for the mystery of why the Othello Quarto differs from the better-known Folio version on thousands of points ? An important book for scholars in Shakespeare and Elizabethan-Jacobean drama