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Shakespeare's play Othello was not based on an earlier play, but rather on an Italian story called "A Moorish Captain", written by the Italian writer Cinthio, a pseudonym for Giovanni Battista Giraldi. Cinthio's story is an explicitly racist warning against mating with Africans. Shakespeare's play loses that ranting edge.

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