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Othello
A Graphic Adaptation
1983
First Published
3.84
Average Rating
130
Number of Pages

O Beware, my lord, of jealousy: it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on. So cautions the villainous Iago, and the stage is set for the illusion and deception that results from his festering envy. "Othello" is Shakespeare's timeless tale of sexual passion, mistrust, and murder. It is freshly illuminated in this new comic book format, as full-color panels picture Othello's tortured suspicions, and readers see both sides of the renowned double meaning in Shakespeare's verse. Every line of dialogue from the First Folio edition of the play has been preserved and illustrated. Creating the unsettling perception that "nothing is but what is not," Argentine artist Oscar Zarate evokes Othello's deterioration in watercolors, inks, and colored pencils that keep pace with the agitated action, and accelerate the tension to the pitch of a live performance. Illustrated by Oscar Zarate.

Avg Rating
3.84
Number of Ratings
32
5 STARS
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3 STARS
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Oscar Zárate
Oscar Zárate
Author · 6 books
Oscar Zárate (born 1942) is an Argentine comic book artist and illustrator. Zarate studied architecture and had a successful career in advertising in Argentina. He moved to Europe in 1971 and began to work in earnest as an illustrator. He has drawn for the UK comics magazine Crisis. In the Introducing... and ...For Beginners book series he illustrated texts written by Richard Appignanesi, Alexei Sayle, Dylan Evans, J P McEvoy, Angus Gellatly and Rupert Woodfin. He is perhaps best known in the United States as the artist for the graphic novel A Small Killing written by Alan Moore, the a full length story about a once idealistic advertising executive haunted by his boyhood self.
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