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Setting. Othello is set in Venice, presumably sometime in the latter half of the sixteenth-century. Venice was at war with the Ottoman empire between 1570 and 1573, so the play’s reference to the threat of an attack on Cyprus could reflect a setting sometime during this period.
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A tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, Othello was written in 1603–04 and published in 1622 (although a later version was published in Shakespeare’s First Folio in 1623). The play is based on an Italian play by Giambattista Giraldi called De gli Hecatommithi (1565).
The setting of Othello shifts from the busy city of Venice to the island of Cyprus. The characters Iago , Othello , Emilia , Cassio , Desdemona , and Roderigo travel to the island where they are isolated from the outside world.
Click on the images below to find out more about the setting of Othello and what we know about where the play is set. Venice is a place where Othello is an outsider and he marries Desdemona in secret. Venice is ruled by a senate which includes a ‘Duke’ and several senators.
Othello, written by Shakespeare in 1603, is set in Venice and Cyprus during the Renaissance period in the latter half of the 1500s. The action of the play is set against the backdrop of the Venetian-Ottoman war, a longstanding conflict between the Venetian Christians and the Muslim Ottoman Empire.
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