Othello

Author: Shakespeare
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Publish Date: 2001-05-01
Features: Othello is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. The play tells the story of Othello, a Moor, who secretly marries Desdemona, a young and beautiful woman. Due to the plotter Iago setting a trap using the handkerchief Desdemona accidentally lost, Othello ends up killing his beloved and, in the end, takes his own life. Through his brilliant portrayal of the character Iago, the play demonstrates the immense destructive power of evil. The entire work is filled with poetic language and skillfully employs various rhetorical devices, making it a masterpiece of Shakespeare's mature later works.