Peter Erickson and Maurice Hunt, eds. Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Othello.(Book review)

Publication: Comparative Drama

Publication Date: 22-MAR-06

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Peter Erickson and Maurice Hunt, eds. Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Othello. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2005. Pp. ix + 244. $37.50 casebound; $19.75 paperbound.

This latest volume in the valuable MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series does credit to everyone involved. It is difficult to imagine a reader who would not benefit from this book, for the volumes in this series are useful not only to novice and experienced teachers but also to anyone (including students and general readers) looking for kaleidoscopic overviews of the best that has been thought and said about the most important works of literature. The format of the series ensures that a wide range of significant approaches are discussed and employed: the volumes survey the most frequently discussed and debated topics relevant to a given literary work, and they also offer valuable practical suggestions for sharing not only the works themselves but also the scholarship about them with college students of all levels and backgrounds. This volume on Othello exemplifies all the virtues for which the series is known and respected.

The book opens, as is customary, with an overview of the "materials" available to teachers....

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