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The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, often shortened to Othello (/ ɒˈθɛloʊ /), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare around 1603. Set in Venice and Cyprus, the play depicts the Moorish military commander Othello as he is manipulated by his ensign, Iago, into suspecting his wife Desdemona of infidelity.
- William Shakespeare
- 1941
Sep 27, 2024 · Othello, tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1603–04 and published in 1622 in a quarto edition from a transcript of an authorial manuscript.The text published in the First Folio of 1623 seems to have been based on a version revised by Shakespeare himself that sticks close to the original almost line by line but introduces numerous substitutions of words and phrases, as though Shakespeare copied it over himself and rewrote as he copied.
- David Bevington
Desdemona is a character in Shakespeare’s Othello. She is one of the most pitiable victims in all of Shakespeare’s plays. A devoted, loving wife, she is murdered by her husband in a fit of jealous rage. Othello is about many things and one of the most glaring of those things is race. The eponymous character, Othello, is a Moor.
Desdemona and Othello are secretly married before the play begins. While in many ways stereotypically pure and meek, Desdemona is also determined and self-possessed. She is equally capable of defending her marriage, jesting bawdily with Iago, and responding with dignity to Othello’s incomprehensible jealousy.
Desdemona is a more plausible, well-rounded figure than much criticism has given her credit for. Arguments that see Desdemona as stereotypically weak and submissive ignore the conviction and authority of her first speech (“My noble father, / I do perceive here a divided duty” [I.iii. 179–180]) and her terse fury after Othello strikes her (“I have not deserved this” [IV.i. 236]).
Desdemona (/ ˌdɛzdəˈmoʊnə /) is a character in William Shakespeare 's play Othello (c. 1601–1604). Shakespeare's Desdemona is a Venetian beauty who enrages and disappoints her father, a Venetian senator, when she elopes with Othello, a Moorish Venetian military prodigy. When her husband is deployed to Cyprus in the service of the ...
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The proper understanding of the relations of Othello and Desdemona is equally important with the question of the relations of lago and Othello. The exposition of these two elements of the play is set forth by the dramatist with his usual clearness, and at considerable length, but has nevertheless escaped the notice of the critics, or has been discounted as a factor in the interpretation.
