Othello by William Shakespeare

Book of the Week: 5 July 2015

It’s Activities Week when Year 7 will be working on a production of Othello, so Book of the Week has temporarily become ‘Play of the Week’.

A popular soldier and a newly married man, Othello seems to be in an enviable position. And yet, when his supposed friend sows doubts in his mind about his wife’s fidelity, he is gradually consumed by suspicion. In this powerful tragedy, innocence is corrupted and trust is eroded as every relationship is drawn into a tangled web of jealousies.

Quotation from the blurb of: Shakespeare, W. (2005) Othello. Edited with a commentary by Kenneth Muir. London: Penguin.

Picture of first quarto title page of Othello. Available at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Othello_title_page.jpg (Accessed: 5 July 2015)