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THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, MOOR OF VENICE
OTHELLO, MOOR OF
VENICE
William Shakespeare
1605
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THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, MOOR OF VENICE
Dramatis Personae
OTHELLO, the Moor, general of the ian forces DESDEMONA,
his wife IAGO, ensign to Othello EMILIA, his wife, lady--in--waiting to
Desdemona CASSIO, lieutenant to Othello THE DUKE OF VENICE
BRABANTIO, ian Senator, father of Desdemona GRATIANO,
nobleman of Venice, brother of Brabantio LODOVICO, nobleman of
Venice, kinsman of Brabantio RODERIGO, rejected suitor of Desdemona
BIANCA, mistress of Cassio MONTANO, a Cypriot official A Clown in
service to Othello Senators, Sailors, Messengers, Officers, Gentlemen,
Musicians, and Attendants

Scene: Venice and Cyprus
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THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, MOOR OF VENICE
ACT I.
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SCENE I. Venice. A street.
Enter Roderigo and Iago.
RODERIGO. Tush, never tell me! I take it much unkindly That thou,
Iago, who hast had my purse As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of
this. IAGO. 'Sblood, but you will not hear me. If ever I did dream of such
a matter, Abhor me. RODERIGO. Thou told'st me thou didst hold him in
thy hate. IAGO. Despise me, if I do not. Three great ones of the city, In
personal suit to make me his lieutenant, Off--capp'd to him; and, by the
faith of man, I know my price, I am worth no worse a place. But he, as
loving his own pride and purposes, Evades them, with a bumbast
circumstance Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war, And, in conclusion,
Nonsuits my mediators; for, "Certes," says he, "I have already chose my
officer." And what was he? Forsooth, a great arithmetician, One Michael
Cassio, a Florentine (A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife) That never set
a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a
spinster; unless the bookish theoric, Wherein the toged consuls can
propose As