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  Othello

  by William Shakespeare

  Othello is duped by the evil Iago into thinking that his wife Desdemona has been unfaithful. This leads to tragic consequences.
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  Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

  by Ann-Marie MacDonald

  When ghostwriter Constance Ledbelly's mentor marries a rival, Constance embarks on a "what-if" writing spree that brings her face-to-face with literary characters Desdemona and Juliet. What follows is a riotous retelling of theatrical legend that brings Constance renewed self-confidence--and that won playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald awards and accolades.
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  Exposure

  by Mal Peet

  This is the third "Paul Faustino" novel by multi-award-winning Mal Peet. A massive soccer star has it all, but someone is plotting his downfall...Revered as a national hero...married to the desirable Desmerelda...cherished by the media...soccer star, Otello, has it all. But a sensational club transfer sparks a media frenzy, and when he is wrongly implicated in a scandal, the footballer's life turns into a tragic... (more)
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  Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

  by Shyam Selvadurai

  Nominated for the Governor General's Literary Awards 2005, (Children's Literature, Text) The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to think of his life “before,” when his doting mother was still alive.... (more)
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  Tragedies

  by William Shakespeare

  (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies were written in a remarkably short period of time, between 1598 and 1606. Hamlet , Othello , Macbeth , and King Lear are each so singular an achievement that any rereading of them reinforces the awe and almost idolatrous worship that this most uncanny of the world’s great writers invariably inspires. In these four plays, Shakespeare engages... (more)
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  Harlem Duet

  by Djanet Sears

  A rhapsodic blues tragedy. Harlem Duet could be the prelude to Shakepeare’s Othello , and recounts the tale of Othello and his first wife Billie (yes, before Desdemona). Set in contemporary Harlem at the corner of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X boulevards, the play explores the space where race and sex intersect. Malcolm X once suggested that Martin Luther King's "dream" would turn into a nightmare before it... (more)
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  All the World's a Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare

  by John Reed

  An epic tragedy of love, war, murder, and madness, plucked from the pages of Shakespeare In All the World’s a Grave , John Reed reconstructs the works of William Shakespeare into a new five-act tragedy. The language is Shakespeare’s, but the drama that unfolds is as fresh as the blood on the stage. Prince Hamlet goes to war for Juliet, the daughter of King Lear. Having captured Juliet as his bride—by... (more)
• The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of VeniceWilliam Shakespeare

  

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  The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice

  by William Shakespeare

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  As Meat Loves Salt

  by Maria McCann

  Transplant Othello to the tumult of a country in social and political flux and en route to regicide -- England in the 1640s -- and render him uncertain about his sexuality, and you have the makings of Jacob Cullen, one of the most commanding characters in contemporary writing. As the book opens, Jacob is an educated, vigorous and dauntingly strong manservant in a Royalist household, who has begun to... (more)
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  Othello: Book 1

  Othello 1 (Othello (Del Rey))

  by Satomi Ikezawa

  HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES Yaya’s high school friends haven’t been very nice. They call her “Yaya the cry-ya! Yaya the misfi-ya!” But no matter how badly they act, Yaya is just too naïve and trusting to believe the worst of her friends. Hard-rocking, butt-kicking Nana is just the girl to grab hold of Yaya’s timid demeanor and turn it upside down. Nana exposes Yaya’s “friends” as slime bags, doles out punishment, and... (more)
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  Global Chinese Culture

  Chinese Shakespeares : two centuries of cultural exchange

  by Alexander C. Y. Huang

  For close to two hundred years, the ideas of Shakespeare have inspired incredible work in the literature, fiction, theater, and cinema of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. From the novels of Lao She and Lin Shu to Lu Xun's search for a Chinese "Shakespeare," and from Feng Xiaogang's martial arts films to labor camp memoirs, Soviet-Chinese theater, Chinese opera in Europe, and silent film, Shakespeare has been put to... (more)
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  Four Great Tragedies

  Hamlet / Othello / King Lear / Macbeth

  by William Shakespeare, David Bevington

  The greatest works of tragedy from the Bard, this book features "Hamlet, Othello, King Lear" and "Macbeth".
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  Shakespeare Made Easy

  Othello (Shakespeare Made Easy)

  by William Shakespeare

  Here are the books that help teach Shakespeare plays without the teacher constantly needing to explain and define Elizabethan terms, slang, and other ways of expression that are different from our own. Each play is presented with Shakespeare's original lines on each left-hand page, and a modern, easy-to-understand "translation" on the facing right-hand page. All dramas are complete, with every original... (more)
• William Shakespeare: Six TragediesWilliam Shakespeare

  

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  William Shakespeare: Six Tragedies

  by William Shakespeare

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  Spark Notes No Fear Shakespeare Othello Publisher: SparkNotes

  by SparkNotes Editors

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  Iago

  by David Snodin

  An unforgettable adventure beginning where Shakespeare's Othello leaves off Wounded in love, tormented by his past, Shakespeare's most complex villain is brought magnificently to life in this tale of two adversaries—one an accused killer; the other, one of the most powerful men in Venice. Having escaped from Cyprus, accused of the murders of the governor, known as the Moor, and his lovely young wife, Iago is... (more)