From the Book - First edition
An Othello pre-text: Cinthio, from Gli Hecatommithi
Part one: William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice
Edited by David Bevington
Part two: Cultural contexts
Othello's sword and English sexuality
Peter Martyr, from the decades of the New World or West India
George Best, from a true discourse of the late voyages of discovery
Queen Elizabeth I, licensing Casper Van Senden to deport Negroes
John Leo Africanus, from a geographical history of Africa
Ottoman empire and "turning Turk"
Richard Knolles, from the general history of the Turks
Giles Fletcher the elder, from policy of the Turkish empire
Church of England, prayer for the preservation of those christians and their countries that are now invaded by the Turk
Nicholas Udall, from respublica
Geneva bible, verses on the white devil
Martin Luther, from a commentary upon the epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians
Early modern Mediterranean
Dedicatory poems, from the commonwealth and government of Venice
Fynes Moryson, from an itinerary
Thomas Coryate, from coryats crudities
Cyprus: Birthplace of love
Richard Knolles, from the general history of the Turks
James VI and I, from the Lepanto
Jan Huyghen Van Linschoten, from his discourse of voyages into the East and West Indies
John Leo Africanus, from a geographical history of Africa
Marriage and the household
Baldassare Castiglione, from the book of the courtier
Juan Luis Vives, from instruction of a christian woman
William Whately, from a bride-bush: or, a wedding sermon
Ste. B, from counsel to the husband: to the wife instruction
Hannah Woolley, from the gentlewoman's companion; or, a guide to the female sex
Martin Parker, from the married man's lesson: or, a dissuasion from jealousy
From the cuckhold's haven
Masculinity and military life
Robert Barret, from the theory and practice of modern wars
Thomas Proctor, from of the knowledge and conduct of wars
Thomas and Leonard Digges, from an arithmetical military treatise, named stratioticos
Thomas Styward, from the pathway to martial discipline
John Taylor, from a valorous and perilous sea-fight fought with three Turkish ships
Thomas Wright, from the passions of the mind in general
Pierre de la Primaudaye, from the French academy
Thomas Buoni, from problems of beauty and all human affections
Benedetto Varchi, from the blazon of jealousy
Robert Burton, from anatomy of melancholy
Francis Bacon, from the essays or counsels, civil and moral
Thomas Rymer, from a short view of tragedy
Charlotte Ramsey Lennox, from Shakespeare illustrated
William Winter, from othello: as presented by Edwin Booth
Thomas Jordan, from the nursery of novelties in a variety of poetry
Paula Vogel, from Desdemona: a play about a handkerchief
Desdemonum: Ethiopian burlesque, in three scenes
Thomas Dartmouth rice, from Otello: Burlesque opera
Tayeb Salih, from season of migration to the North
Derek Walcott, goats and monkeys
