Othello and The Tragedy of Mariam

From Longman’s new Cultural Editions Series, Othello, edited by prominent Shakespearean scholar Clare Carroll, includes Othello, Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of Jewry, and source materials on early modern ethnography and on women and gender. Longman Cultural Editions are a new series of teaching texts edited by prominent scholars. In addition to Othello, the second volume offer Frankenstein, with selections from Mary Shelley’s journals and contextual materials on Romantic images of Satan. Other titles offered in the series include Dickens’ Hard Times, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Future titles will include Shakespeare’s King Lear and Beowulf.