The masterful depiction of the anguish of uncertainty offered in Othello demonstrates the full scope of Shakespeare's mastery. Language itself proves to be the source of Othello's power and its eclipse. The title, William Shakespeare’s Othello, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on William Shakespeare’s Othello through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on William Shakespeare, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
