Shakespeare’s intense, emotionally-charged drama of love and betrayal takes on a multimedia dimension on this CD-ROM. Scholarly video commentary is provided by Professors Stanley Wells and Russell Jackson of the Shakespeare Institute, who analyze the motives of the Moorish prince, Desdemona, Cassio, and the evil Iago. This superb interactive companion for students and teachers features a complete and fully searchable text of the play, synchronized with dramatizations of key scenes and speeches; a synopsis of the play; lists of key characters and explanations of their roles; literary criticism of the text; scholarly essays featuring modern perspectives on Othello (Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic, deconstructionist, structuralist); a biography of Shakespeare; excerpts from A. C. Bradley’s definitive lecture series, Shakespearean Tragedy; a facsimile of the First Folio edition of the text; a clickable word glossary with accurate modern definitions of words no longer in common use; a bibliography of critical works; a history of Othello in performance; and Internet links to Web sites devoted to Shakespearean scholarship. The CD-ROM can be used with either Windows or Macintosh.