ID: 901002178 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002178	Record Type: Literature

	Othello (play, Shakespeare, published 1622)

Note: Tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1603–04 and published in 1622 in a quarto edition from a transcript of an authorial manuscript. The text published in the First Folio of 1623 seems to have been based on a version revised by Shakespeare himself that sticks close to the original almost line by line but introduces numerous substitutions of words and phrases, as though Shakespeare copied it over himself and rewrote as he copied. The play derives its plot from Giambattista Giraldi’s De gli Hecatommithi (1565), which Shakespeare appears to have known in the Italian original; it was available to him in French but had not been translated into English.

Names:

	Othello (play, Shakespeare, published 1622) (preferred,English-P,D)
	Othello, the Moor of Venice (play, Shakespeare, published 1622) (English,U)

Hierarchical Position:

		Literature and Performing Arts (P)
		....<Named written and performed works> (P)
		........<Literary works: Drama (plays, etc.)> (P)
		............Othello (play, Shakespeare, published 1622) (I)

Related Iconography:

	actor is .... Othello
	..........(Literature and Performing Arts, Literary characters, Othello (literary character, Shakespeare, Othello)) [901002179]

	actor is .... Iago
	..........(Literature and Performing Arts, Literary characters, Iago (literary character, Shakespeare, Othello)) [901002180]

	actor is .... Desdemona
	..........(Literature and Performing Arts, Literary characters, Desdemona (literary character, Shakespeare, Othello)) [901002181]

Other Relationships:

	author is .... Shakespeare, William (English playwright and poet, 1564-1616)
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	role/characteristic is .... tragedy (document genre)
	.....(genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Othello (play, Shakespeare, published 1622)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	................Contributed as a candidate term H.Bertoldi, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, 29 July 2019
	Othello, the Moor of Venice (play, Shakespeare, published 1622)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) David Bevington, "Othello," accessed 29 July 2019