片断：
Shake-sceneinacountry'.BythistimeShakespearehadalreadywritten
theHenryVlplays(fromwhichGreenehadquotedinhisinsulting
remarks).In1593thenarrativepoemVenusandAdoniswaspublished,
anditwasdedicatedtoHenryWriothesley,thethirdEarlofSouthamp-
ton.In1594TheRapeofLucrece,anothernarrativepoem,waspub-
lishedanddedicatedtothesameperson.Itwasalsoprobablyduring
theperiod1592-4,whentheLondontheatreswereclosedbecauseofthe
outbreaksoftheplague,thatmanyofthesonnetswerewritten,and
somecommentatorshavesuggested

Part1:Introduction
ThelifeofWilliamShakespeare
TheElizabethantheatre
ThesourcesofOthello
ThecontextofOthello
Anoteonthetext
Part2:Summaries
Ageneralsummary
Detailedsummaries
Part3:Commentary
Themes
Setting
Characterandcharacterisation
Part4:Hintsforstudy
Characters
Essayquestionsandrevision
Passagestolearnbyheart
Part5:Suggestionsforfurtherreading
Theauthorofthesenotes