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Things to Know
About Shakespeare’s Othello
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What is a villain?
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What is “the Other”?
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Dialectics…
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What does “Moor” mean?
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The Ottoman Empire
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The Fall of Constantinople (1453)
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What was Venice?
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Pretty pictures for you!
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More Venice…
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Venetian Masks
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Original Doge
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Cyprus
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So, overall:
– Moors: Would have held an exotic appeal and excited a certain fear in the London audience.
– Ottoman Empire: a force that pushed Islam into the European sphere and caused fear to arise in some Londoners
– Venice: Land of the rich and the wily. Machiavelli’s The Prince would come to mind, as would Shakespeare’s previous play, The Merchant of Venice and its Jewish character, Shylock.
– Both the Moors and the Venetians would hold a bit of the appeal/fear of alterity for the London audience.