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Othello: The Moor of Venice is a play by Shakespeare written about 1603. Othello is a tragedy, like Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear. Shakespeare probably wrote Othello after Hamlet but before the latter two. The first recorded performance was on November 1, 1604 at Whitehall Palace in London.
The title character, Othello, is a noble Moor (North African Muslim) who commands an army in Cyprus. He is presented sympathetically despite his race. This is unusual for English literature of Shakespeare's time, which commonly depicted Moors and other dark-skinned peoples as villains. Shakespeare avoids any discussion of IslamCairo Egypt Islm (In Arabic: , "submission (to God)"; In Persian and Urdu: ) is a monotheistic faith and the world's second-largest religion. Followers of Islam, known as Muslims believe that God (or, in Arabic, Allh revealed His Will to Muhammad (c. in the play.
Othello, who has just eloped with DesdemonaDesdemona is a fictional character in the play Othello by William Shakespeare. She is Othello's wife, and the daughter of Senator Brabantonio. She is a lightskinned and innocent and Shakespeare uses her as a symbol of purity to contrast malevolent Iago an when the play opens, leaves VeniceVenice ( Italian Venezia German Venedig , the city of canals, is the capital of the region of Veneto, population 271,073 (2001). The city stretches across numerous small islands in a marshy lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. The saltwater l to command the Venetian armies in CyprusCyprus (in Greek Kypros Κυπρος; and in Turkish Kibris is an island in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, 113 kilometres (70 miles) south of Turkey and around 120 km west of Syrian coast. Name and position The English-langua. When Desdemona and Cassio join Othello in Cyprus, the treacherous standard-bearer IagoIago is a fictional character in Shakespeare's Othello. Iago, one of Othello's best friends, spends most of the play attempting to bring about Othello's downfall out of jealousy. He eventually does destroy Othello's reputation (which leads the Moor to kil persuades Othello that Desdemona has been unfaithful to him with Cassio. Othello kills Desdemona in anger. Iago's wife, Emilia, then reveals that Desdemona's affair was an invention of Iago's. Iago kills Emilia and Othello commits suicideSuicide (from Latin sui caedere to kill oneself) is the act of ending one's own life. It is considered a sin in many religions, and a crime in some jurisdictions. On the other hand, some cultures have viewed it as an honorable way to exit certain shameful. Cassio rules Cyprus and Iago's punishment is left for Cassio to decide (see also Othello list of charactersOthello, the Moor of Venice is a play written by William Shakespeare. The List of Characters for Othello is as follows: Persons Represented Duke of Venice''. Brabantio a Senator. Other Senators''. Gratiano Brother to Brabantio. Lodovico Kinsman to Brabant).
The plot for Othello was developed from Giraldo Cinthio 's Hecatommithi , which it follows closely. The only named character in Cinthio's story is "Disdemona" (Greek for 'unfortunate'); the other characters were identified only as 'the standard-bearer,' 'the captain,' and 'the Moor.' In the original, the standard-bearer lusts after Disdemona, and is spurred to revenge when she rejects him. Shakespeare invented a new character, Roderigo, who pursues the Moor's wife and is killed while trying to kill Cassio. The Moor in Cinthio's story never repents of murdering his wife, and both he and the standard-bearer escape Venice and are killed only much later. Cinthio also drew a moral (which he placed in the mouth of the lady) that European women are unwise to marry the hot-blooded, uncontrollable males of other nations; Shakespeare suppressed this observation.