| Series Introduction | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| Biography of William Shakespeare | p. 1 |
| Summary of Othello | p. 5 |
| Key Passages in Othello | p. 23 |
| List of Characters in Othello | p. 41 |
| Criticism through the Ages | p. 43 |
| Othello in the Seventeenth Century | p. 45 |
| 1666-Samuel Pepys. From The Diary of Samuel Pepys | p. 46 |
| 1693-Thomas Rymer. From A Short View of Tragedy | p. 47 |
| 1694-Charles Gildon. "Some Reflections on Mr. Rymer's Short View of Tragedy and an Attempt at a Vindication of Shakespeare," from "Remarks on the Plays of Shakespear" | p. 75 |
| Othello in the Eighteenth Century | p. 83 |
| 1710-Sir Richard Steele. "On the Funeral of Betterton," from The Tatler | p. 85 |
| 1713-John Hughes. "On the Tragedy of Othello," from The Guardian | p. 86 |
| 1717-Lewis Theobald. From The Censor | p. 89 |
| 1733-Voltaire. "The Orphan," from Philosophical Letters | p. 90 |
| 1765-Samuel Johnson. Othello (notes), from The Plays of William Shakespear | p. 93 |
| 1775-Elizabeth Griffith. From The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated | p. 94 |
| Othello in the Nineteenth Century | p. 97 |
| 1809-August Wilhelm Schlegel. "Criticisms on Shakspeare's Tragedies," from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature | p. 99 |
| 1811-Charles Lamb. "On the Tragedies of Shakespeare," from The Reflector | p. 102 |
| 1817-William Hazlitt. "Othello," from Characters of Shakespear's Plays | p. 102 |
| 1818-Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "Notes on Othello," from Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets | p. 113 |
| 1836-John Quincy Adams. "The Character of Desdemona," from The American Monthly Magazine | p. 117 |
| 1864-Victor Hugo. From William Shakespeare | p. 126 |
| 1880-Algernon Charles Swinburne. From A Study of Shakespeare | p. 127 |
| 1897-George Bernard Shaw. "Mainly About Shakespeare," from London Saturday Review | p. 134 |
| Othello in the Twentieth Century | p. 137 |
| 1904-A. C. Bradley. "Othello," from Shakespearean Tragedy | p. 138 |
| 1927-T. S. Eliot. "The Hero Cheering Himself Up," from "Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca" | p. 156 |
| 1930-G. Wilson Knight. "The Othello Music," from The Wheel of Fire | p. 157 |
| 1936-William Empson. "The Best Policy," from Life and Letters To-Day | p. 179 |
| 1951-Harold C. Goddard. "Othello," from The Meaning of Shakespeare | p. 186 |
| 1951-Kenneth Burke. "'Othello': An Essay to Illustrate a Method," from The Hudson Review | p. 224 |
| 1956-Robert B. Heilman. "Othello: The Unheroic Tragic Hero," from Magic in the Web: Action and Language in Othello | p. 252 |
| 1961-W. H. Auden. "The Joker in the Pack," from Encounter | p. 261 |
| 1983-A. D. Nuttall. "Othello," from A New Mimesis: Shakespeare and the Representation of Reality | p. 280 |
| 1992-Harold Bloom. "Introduction," from Iago | p. 292 |
| Othello in the Twenty-first Century | p. 297 |
| 2000-Frank Kermode. "Othello," from Shakespeare's Language | p. 297 |
| Bibliography | p. 313 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 315 |
| Index | p. 317 |
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