
Othello
Approaching Shakespeare
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The Ghost of Shakespeare's Sources
Looking up Shakespeare's sources is really easy, they're pretty much all gathered together in Jeffrey Bullock's book. By definition Bullock leaves out the things that don't seem to have influenced Shakespeare's writing of the play. What this Shakespeare looked at and thought I don't want that in my play so it's worth sometimes going back from Bullock to the complete sources which would be on Ebo. Now Shakespeare's main source for a fellow is the Italian prose writer Geraldo Chintheo C-I-N-T-H-I-O Hecata Mithi was published in 1565.
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