<<奥赛罗>>是莎翁的四大悲剧之一.剧中主人公奥赛罗是威尼斯公国一员勇将。他与元老的女儿苔丝狄梦娜相爱。但由于他是黑人，婚事未被允许。两人只好私下成婚。奥赛罗手下有一个阴险的旗官伊阿古，一心想除掉奥赛罗。他先是向元老告密，不料却促成了两人的婚事。他又挑拨奥赛罗与苔丝狄梦娜的感情，说另一名副将凯西奥与苔丝狄梦娜关系不同寻常，并伪造了所谓定情信物等。奥赛罗信以为真，在愤怒中掐死了自己的妻子。当他得知真相后，悔恨之余拔剑自刎，倒在了苔丝狄梦娜身边。本书包括该剧丰富的创作情况,版本变迁,最新研究成果和评论,原文以及注释等.具有重要的参考研究价值.

E.A.J.Honigmann is the author of more than a dozen books on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, including Shakespeare, Seven Tragedies, the Dramatists Manipulation of Response (1976, 2002) and Myriad-Minded Shakespeare (1989, 1998). He has taught as a lecturer at Glasgow University, as a Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford- pon-Avon (Birmingham University), as Joseph Cowen Professor of English Literature in the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and in Canada and the United States. His The Texts of Othello and Shakespearian Revision (1996) is a companion volume to this Arden edition.