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[1] [note 1] Its first outing is at the close of Act I, when Othello places Desdemona under the ensign's care, saying "Honest Iago, / My Desdemona I leave to thee". [2] Its repetition, argues J. W. Abernethy, emphasizes the quality that Iago can be least said to possess, and as such "constitutes a strain of irony running throughout the play". [1]
Brabantio (sometimes called Brabanzio) is a character in William Shakespeare's Othello (c. 1601–1604). He is a Venetian senator and the father of Desdemona. Brabantio makes his first appearance in 1.1 when Iago and Roderigo rouse him with the news that Desdemona has eloped. In 1.2, Brabantio is led to the Sagittary, where the newlyweds are ...
Roderigo is introduced in the play's opening in Act One, Scene One, where, alongside Iago, he alerts Desdemona's father Brabantio that his daughter is eloping with Othello, a fact that Iago knows will cause him great annoyance. After breaking off from Iago, who hid in the earlier scene from Brabantio's sight, he joins Brabantio and his men in ...
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At Brabantio's first appearance towards the end of the first scene, he asks whether sinister "charms" may have abused "the property of youth and maidenhood" of Desdemona. [101] For him, Desdemona denying her father's right to choose her husband, and choosing a black man for herself, can only be explained by black magic.
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In English, the expression dates back to at least William Shakespeare's Othello (Act 1, Scene 1, ll. 126–127, c. 1601–1603): [1] I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs. [2]
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