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Othello. Contents. Introduction 4. A summary of the plot 6. What is Othello about? 10. Does Othello love Desdemona? 17. How important is the age difference between Othello and Desdemona? 21. Why does Iago hate Othello so much? 31. How is Iago so successful? 40. Is Othello too easily jealous? 46.
Othello is a Moor – a dark skinned man whose Negroid features are commented upon and disparaged by a number of characters in the play. According to Michael Wood, there were a number of dramas written about Moors in the last years of Elizabeth.
Othello, thought to have been written in 1603, is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays. It is set in Venice and Cyprus in the late sixteenth century, roughly contemporary to when it was written.
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.
Its setting in the Mediterranean basin locates the play at a key intersection among the continents and cultures of Africa, Asia, and Europe. This physical positioning signals the play's participation in a set of intricate economic, political, and social relationships informed by race, region, and religion, and variations of these relationships ...
Shakespeare’s biggest works, including the tragedy ‘Othello’. But what is ‘Othello’ actually about? And why now? We address this question throughout this resource pack, and we hope that it will give students a better insight into why ‘Othello’ is still relevant today and why it was chosen to be staged.
The contexts in which a text is engaged with by different audiences through the ages. This can be especially useful for Shakespeare’s plays, which are more than 400 years old. For example, the Victorians would have had a different opinion compared to contemporary audiences.
