performed all over the world today. The play tells the story of a powerful, well-known Venetian general, Othello, whose life and marriage are ruined by a treacherous, knavish, and malicious soldier, Iago. Othello is set against the backdrop of the wars between Venice and Turkey that raged in the latter part of the sixteenth century. Shakespeare breaks this play down into multiple motifs, death, being one, causing the most controversy and inside the play; he shows how foreshadowing, point of view…
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