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Othello, a General in the Venetian army, promotes a young officer, Michael Cassio, enraging Iago—the General's ensign—who expected the post himself. Outwardly loyal to Othello and his recently married wife, Desdemona, Iago proceeds to cause dissension within Othello's camp (for instance, tuning Othello's new father-in-law against him, and causing Cassio to fight another officer).
Iago is the play's main antagonist, and Othello's standard-bearer. He is the husband of Emilia who is in turn the attendant of Othello's wife Desdemona . Iago hates Othello and devises a plan to destroy him by making him believe that Desdemona is having an affair with his lieutenant, Michael Cassio .
The racist slurs used by Iago, Roderigo and Brabantio in the play suggest that Shakespeare conceived of Othello as a black African: [71] "thicklips"; [72] "an old black ram is tupping your white ewe"; [73] "you'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse"; [74] "the sooty bosom of such a thing as thou" [75] – as do things Othello says ...
Roderigo is a fictional character in Shakespeare's 1604 play Othello.Roderigo, a wealthy Venetian, is manipulated into funding the antagonist Iago's plot against Othello in the hopeless belief that Iago will aid him in courting Othello's wife Desdemona.
In extended discussions of Hazlitt's critical treatment of the character of Iago in Othello, [348] of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, [349] of Caliban in The Tempest, [350] of Hamlet, [87] and, at great length, of Coriolanus, [351] he uses the contrast between Coleridge's criticism and Hazlitt's to highlight the essential originality of ...
Desdemona (/ ˌ d ɛ z d ə ˈ m oʊ n ə /) 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.
Michael Cassio, or simply Cassio (/ ˈ k æ s i oʊ /), is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's Othello.The source of the character is the 1565 tale "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio; Cassio is unnamed in Cinthio but referred to as "the squadron leader".
Most of Shakespeare's greatest post-1599 plays were written for the Globe, including Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. [170] [172] [173] The reconstructed Globe Theatre on the south bank of the River Thames in London. After the Lord Chamberlain's Men were renamed the King's Men in 1603, they entered a special relationship with the new King James.