The Wordsworth Classics ' Shakespeare Series, with Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeares works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Othello has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare 's tragedies. This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemon...