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Play · c. 1604

Othello

William Shakespeare

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Play · c. 1604 · English · Renaissance

Othello

William Shakespeare

Iago talks a great general into murdering the person who loves him.

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English reading edition

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How to read it

A tragedy of insinuation: Iago supplies no evidence, only syntax — pauses, echoes, half-sentences that let Othello damn himself.

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