STUART HAMPTON-REEVES is Professor of Research-Informed Teaching at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, and a Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association. His previous publications include the volume on Measure for Measure, also in the Shakespeare Handbooks series. 

An introductory guide to Othello in performance offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key productions, a survey of screen adaptations, a sampling of critical opinion and further reading.

General Editor's Preface
Introduction
The Text and Early Performances
Commentary
The Play's Intellectual and Cultural Contexts
Key Productions and Performances
The Play on Screen
Critical Assessment
Further Reading
Index.