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Othello
by William Shakespeare , Norman Sanders
by William Shakespeare , Norman Sanders
Riku Sayuj's review
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Mar 16, 12
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Recommended to Riku by:
Prof Neerja Pande
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Read from October 03 to November 25, 2011, read count: 3
I decided to start my mission to read all 38 of The Complete Plays of Shakespeare with Othello. It turned out to be a good decision to start with the New Cambridge edition.
I was considering this reading as an academic reading of the bard and it generally took me almost 3 hours of constant reading to get through one average sized (10-15 pages) scene! Even after reading every scene three times - once aloud and twice normally - I still never felt I had enough of it, and moved on to the next only due to the suspense. What genius, what lovely wordplays and what sense of drama and malice. I can't believe I never had this joy in shakespeare till now.
All in all, it took much longer than originally planned... But then that is the drawback of reading annotated works - had to read every scene three times... But these New Cambridge Editions are gold mines of information, will stick with them for the other plays also. I hope my mission will not take years to complete at this rate...
One closing statement: Iago is my favorite literary character after Don Quixote.
I was considering this reading as an academic reading of the bard and it generally took me almost 3 hours of constant reading to get through one average sized (10-15 pages) scene! Even after reading every scene three times - once aloud and twice normally - I still never felt I had enough of it, and moved on to the next only due to the suspense. What genius, what lovely wordplays and what sense of drama and malice. I can't believe I never had this joy in shakespeare till now.
All in all, it took much longer than originally planned... But then that is the drawback of reading annotated works - had to read every scene three times... But these New Cambridge Editions are gold mines of information, will stick with them for the other plays also. I hope my mission will not take years to complete at this rate...
One closing statement: Iago is my favorite literary character after Don Quixote.
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Reading Progress
| 10/03/2011 | page 30 |
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13.0% | "Starting my mission to read all 38 of The Complete Plays of Shakespeare with Othello. Will try to read the New Cambridge or Arden editions for most of the plays, but when unavailable will fall back on the more easily available and no less majestic Pelican editions (from everyman's library). Will not touch any abridged works!" 6 comments |
| 10/08/2011 | page 138 |
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58.0% | "Act II exeunt. It takes me almost 3 hours of constant reading to get through one average sized (10-15 pages) scene! Even after reading every scene three times - once aloud and twice normally - I still don't feel I have had enough of it, and move on to the next only due to the suspense. What genius, what lovely wordplays and what sense of drama and malice. I can't believe I never had this joy in shakespeare till now." |
| 11/26/2011 |
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100.0% | "Took much longer than originally planned... But then that is the drawback of reading annotated works - had to read every scene three times... But these New Cambridge Editions are gold mines of information, will stick with them for the other plays also." |
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Mar 16, 2012 12:43pm
I have the New Cambridge editions as well and absolutely love all the extra information. A worthwhile quest to read all the grand master's plays.
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Jeffrey wrote: "I have the New Cambridge editions as well and absolutely love all the extra information. A worthwhile quest to read all the grand master's plays."Yes indeed! Unfortunately, all the plays are not available in local bookstores... I would have liked a well stocked Shakespeare rack in my library.
