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Othello
A play by William Shakespeare
Short | English play

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Venice
Iago is furious about being overlooked for promotion and plots to take revenge against his General Othello, the Moor of Venice. Iago manipulates Othello into believing his wife Desdemona is unfaithful, stirring Othello's jealousy. Othello allows jealousy to consume him, murders Desdemona, and then kills himself.

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Venice

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Iago is furious about being overlooked for promotion and plots to take revenge against his General Othello, the Moor of Venice. Iago manipulates Othello into believing his wife Desdemona is unfaithful, stirring Othello's jealousy. Othello allows jealousy to consume him, murders Desdemona, and then kills himself.

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Illustrator: Unknown, Engraver: Unknown, The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakespeare / Edited by Charles Knight Public Domain. 1849, Public Domain

Illustrator: Kenny Meadows, Engraver: John Orrin Smith, Tales of Shakespeare, 1846, Public Domain

Illustrator: John Gilbert, Engraver: Dalziel Brothers, Tales of Shakespeare,1867, Public Domain

Illustrator: Kenny Meadows, Engraver: John Orrin Smith, Tales of Shakespeare, 1846, Public Domain

Illustrator: John Gilbert, Engraver: Dalziel Brothers, Tales of Shakespeare,1867, Public Domain

Illustrator: H. C. Selous, Engraver: Frederick Wentworth, 1864-1868, Public Domain

Illustrator: John Gilbert, Engraver: Dalziel Brothers, Tales of Shakespeare, 1867, Public Domain

Illustrator: John Gilbert, Engraver: Dalziel Brothers, Tales of Shakespeare, 1867, Public Domain

Illustrator: John Gilbert, Engraver: Dalziel Brothers, Tales of Shakespeare, 1867, Public Domain

Illustrator: John Gilbert, Engraver: Dalziel Brothers, Tales of Shakespeare, 1867, Public Domain

Illustrator: John Gilbert, Engraver: Dalziel Brothers, Tales of Shakespeare, 1867, Public Domain

Illustrator: John Gilbert, Engraver: Dalziel Brothers, Tales of Shakespeare, 1867, Public Domain

Illustrator: John Gilbert, Engraver: Dalziel Brothers, Tales of Shakespeare, 1867, Public Domain

Illustrator: John Gilbert, Engraver: Dalziel Brothers, Tales of Shakespeare, 1867, Public Domain

Illustrator: John Gilbert, Engraver: Dalziel Brothers, Tales of Shakespeare, 1867, Public Domain

Illustrator: John Gilbert, Engraver: Dalziel Brothers, Tales of Shakespeare, 1867, Public Domain

Illustrator: John Gilbert, Engraver: Dalziel Brothers, Tales of Shakespeare, 1867, Public Domain

Illustrator: John Gilbert, Engraver: Dalziel Brothers, Tales of Shakespeare, 1867, Public Domain

Illustrator: John Gilbert, Engraver: Dalziel Brothers, Tales of Shakespeare, 1867, Public Domain

Illustrator: H. C. Selous, Engraver: Frederick Wentworth, 1864-1868, Public Domain

Illustrator: H. C. Selous, Engraver: Frederick Wentworth, 1864-1868, Public Domain

Illustrator: Stothard Thomas, 1755-1834, Engraver: Ryder Thomas, 1746-1810, Shakspeare. Othello, act II, scene I : A platform : Desdemona, Othello, Iago, Cassio, Roderigo, Emilia, etc., Public Domain

Illustrator: John Gilbert, Engraver: Dalziel Brothers, Tales of Shakespeare, 1867, Public Domain

Illustrator: H. C. Selous, Engraver: Frederick Wentworth, 1864-1868, Public Domain

Illustrator: John Gilbert, Engraver: Dalziel Brothers, Tales of Shakespeare, 1867, Public Domain

Illustrator: John Gilbert, Engraver: Dalziel Brothers, Tales of Shakespeare, 1867, Public Domain

Joseph Mallord William Turner, British, 1775 – 1851, “Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore”, 1834, oil on canvas, PUBLIC DOMAIN