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"One of the four great tragedies--alongside 'Hamlet,' 'King Lear,' and 'Macbeth'--'Othello' is among the darkest of Shakespeare's plays, illumining the shadows of the gloomiest recesses of the human psyche and serving as a damning indictment of the world in which it was written. A cautionary tale of the destructiveness of sin and the ruinous consequences of bad philosophy, 'Othello' seems to express Shakespeare's rage at the cynicism and brutality of the age in which he lived. From the Machiavellian menace of Iago to the blind and prideful jealously of Othello, this classic of world literature shows us the shadow falling over a society that has turned its back on the light and life of virtue."--Back cover.

Poet, novelist, intellectual, and literary critic, Marion Hoyt Montgomery taught composition, literature, and creative writing at the University of Georgia for thirty-three years. He also wrote hundreds of poems, twenty-seven short stories, three novels, and one novella. Montgomery has published seventeen books of literary and cultural criticism. He received numerous awards for his fiction and verse in the 1960s and early 1970s. In 2001 he received the Stanley W. Lindberg Award for outstanding contributions to Georgia’s literary heritage. Montgomery was born in Thomaston, the son of Lottie May Jenkins and Marion H. Montgomery. He served in the U.S. Army from