Othello, the Moor

This tragedy, also titled Othello, the Moor of Venice, concerns a Venetian general of North African origin whose marriage to Desdemona is used against him by his ensign Iago. After the Senate sends Othello to command in Cyprus, Iago, slighted in his career and nursing other grievances, sets Cassio, Desdemona, and Othello in a design of planted evidence and midnight talk. Roderigo's purse, Emilia's service, and a lost handkerchief become instruments. The play studies how honour and suspicion work in a military household far from Venice, and how quickly a reputation for openness can be turned into proof of guilt.

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