Othello Close Reading & Summaries

Teaching Shakespeare’s tragic story of betrayal and manipulation but short on time? Students struggling to grasp the complex language? Shakespeare Simplified - Othello Close Reading, Summaries to the rescue! Designed for the abridged Othello unit and/or students with learning disabilities or for whom English is not their first language, these summaries and close readings will allow you to tackle key interactions and plot points quickly and efficiently.

Shakespeare’s Othello has been a staple in English classes for years. Lies. Deceit. False accusations. Romance. Murder. This play has it all.

What’s included in Othello Close Reading, Summaries:

• Character map: keep the character relationships straight with this visual. Includes clip art of each character and arrows showing all connections
• Scene summaries: summaries of each scene provide students with the necessary background for key scene annotations as well as fill in gaps in the action between close reading scenes
• Close readings (one per act): includes side-by-side original and modern English translations of key lines from one scene in each act
• Scenes included:
  1. Act 1: scene 3, lines 48-73, 171-199
  2. Act 2: scene 1, lines 100-166; 214-280
  3. Act 3: scene 3, lines 90-170; 193-212
  4. Act 4: scene 1, lines 1-48; 64-99; 170-211
  5. Act 5: scene 2, lines 1-84; 195-251
• fillable PDF: can be uploaded to LMS of choice for online completion
• suggested answer key