In this volume on Othello, Laurie Maguire examines the use and misuse of language, the play's textual and performance histories and how critics and directors have responded to the language of sexual jealousy.

Laurie Maguire is Professor of English at Magdalen College, Oxford. Her research encompasses textual studies, editing, Elizabethan performance, classical influences on Renaissance writers, Elizabethan barbers and surgeons, contemporary performances of Shakespeare's plays, and feminist criticism.

Preface
Introduction
1. Language in Print
2. Language: Forms and Uses
3. Language Through Time
4. Writing and Language Skills
Further Reading