Desdemonas father and one of the senators of venice.
Roderigo was in love with Desdemona, who married Othello instead.
Iago is stupid.
The translation to Othello is the Moor of Venice. It is based on an Italian short story called Un Capitano Moro.
Desdemona
Iago's wife Emilia.
Roderigo was in love with Desdemona, who married Othello instead.
Othello is a dramatic story on its own merits.
A short story by Shakespeare.
Iago is stupid.
The translation to Othello is the Moor of Venice. It is based on an Italian short story called Un Capitano Moro.
Desdemona
Iago's wife Emilia.
The full title of the Shakespeare play often called "Othello" is "The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice." There are operas and other musical pieces based on the story and in some of these the name is spelled "Otello."
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She asked him to tell her his life story and he did.
There is no novel of Othello, actually. The famous Othello is a play by Shakespeare. Plays are not novels. If Othello was white, Othello wouldn't have been insecure, his relationship with Desdemona wouldn't be disapproved of and Iago might have hated Othello less. That is, of course assuming that Othello is white and so is everybody else. If Othello were white and everyone else was black, the story would be much the same because Othello's insecurity stems from his feeling of otherness, his feeling that he was different from everyone else. Othello has in fact been staged in this way, with a black cast and a white Othello. It has also been staged with actors playing Othello who are not black but are different from the rest in some other way.
As with almost all of Shakespeare's plays, Shakespeare got the story from a story he read somewhere.