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Shakespeare placed dramatic emphasis on the racial differences...
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between Othello and the other characters in the play .
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Despite the theme's obvious centrality in the play...
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there is no agreement about which race exactly it was Shakespeare had in mind for Othello .
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It is noticeable that it is no part of even Iago's huge antagonism...
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to Othello that his commanding officer is not a Venetian .
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Brabantio viewed Othello as a ...
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distinguished solider and honoured guest before the play begins .
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Only when race is connected with miscegenation that it becomes ...
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highly charged emotional issue for the internationally minded Venetians.
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The only other Moor in Shakespeare's works is ...
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Aaron , the villain in Titus Andronicus , who is clearly conceived as a wooley hair , thicked lipped 'coal-black Moor'.
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The Duke assures Brabantio that his ...
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"son -in-law is far more fair than black" (1.3.286)
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Iago toast the health of the ...
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"black Othello" (2.3.27)
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Brabantio finds that his daughter would cleave to a...
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"sooty bosom" (1.2.70)
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Emilia rising to defence of he mistress , sees the more as a ...
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"blacker devil" (5.2.132)
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Othello laments himself ...
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"haply for I am black" (3.3.265)
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Othello sees Desdemona's supposedly besmirched honour as being ...
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"begrimed and black " as his own face . (3.3.388-389)
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Shakespeare used the word "black" to mean ...
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"brunette" or merely "dark complexion".
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Othello's race amount to an awareness that his features are...
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strikingly at odds with White Venetian standards of good looks .
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Jealous rival , Roderigo , he is a...
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"thick-lips" (1.1.67)
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He is a
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'devil" to Emilia (5.2.132)
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Iago's envisions him as an
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"an old black ram " (1.1.89)
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Desdemona herself feels obliged to an account for her rejection of the racial norms of appearance in he choice of a husband by telling the Senate that she ...
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"saw Othello's visage in his mind " (1.3.248)
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Desdemona's father's disbelief in the conviction that her nature could not err so preposterously as to wed ...
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"what she feared to look on" (1.3.98)
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Iago , believing sincerely that Desdemona must grow to see that ...
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'her husband is defective in loveliness of favour" (2.1.218-220)
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Othello accepting without demur that it proves her unnatural that she refused ...
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"many proposed matches // Of her own clime , complexion , and degree" (3.3.231-232)
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To wed someone who makes her...
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shaken with fear (3.3.209)
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For modern readers...
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all indicators of colour and race would most certainly point to a Negro but for the 17th Century Londoner they could apply equally to an Arab.
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Iago's derogatory comparison of Othello to a 'Barbary horse' (1.1.111-112)...
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would not be taken by any member of the Blackfriars audience to be other than to an Arabian steed.
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Iago's scornful use of ...
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"barbarian" (1.3.343)
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In the lie he tells Roderigo about Othellos demotion it is...
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Mauritania (i.e the land of the Moors) he selects for the imaginary posting (4.2.217)
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