The play opens in the powerful city state of Venice, famous as a center of trade and banking and for its military might. It is in the early hours of the morning, and two men—Roderigo, a young gentleman and former suitor of Senator Brabantio’s daughter Desdemona, and Iago, an ensign who claims to have been passed over for promotion by Othello—are outside Senator Brabantio’s house to tell him the news of his daughter’s elopement with Othello, the Moor.... More
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