"Othello" is the tragedy of a Moorish general destroyed by the lies of his ensign Iago, who poisons him with jealousy against his innocent wife Desdemona. Its portrait of motiveless malignity and racial outsiderhood gives it terrible modern force.
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"Othello" is the tragedy of a Moorish general destroyed by the lies of his ensign Iago, who poisons him with jealousy against his innocent wife Desdemona. Its portrait of motiveless malignity and racial outsiderhood gives it terrible modern force.