OTHELLO

Here are just a few notes I copied from the board on friday in class, if you were not here. Oh, and read the poems they will help.

Othello

• Shakespeare
• tragedy - someone dies in the end
• Othello - military leader - Italy
• Desedemosa - Othello's wife
• Iago =bad guy
• Amelia - Iago's wife and she's D's waiting woman
• Cassio - Othello's Lieutenant

Themes

• Appearance vs. reality "truth"
• value of honesty and reputation

Africa was known as the dark continent because it was unknown - where Othello is from - N. Africa - Muslim