Othello is called upon to advise the senators, and Brabantio is left in the unfortunate position of accompanying Othello to the Duke's residence. The news infuriates Desdemona's father Brabantio and he vows to behead Othello, though he is prevented by Othello's residence that is full of the Duke of Venice's guards. Iago persuades Roderigo to wake the young Desdemona'sįather and inform him of Othello's secret wedding to his daughter. As both men lament their misfortune at the hand of Othello, they devise a plan to use Othello's misgivings to their advantage. He believes he has been unfairly overlooked for promotion as Othello gave the young Michael Cassio a Iago is Othello's ensign, and though trusted by Othello, he is jealous and spiteful as well. Roderigo had asked Desdemona'sįather for her hand in marriage, but Othello's secretly married her, leaving Roderigo alone and upset.

The play begins with a jealous complaint, as Roderigo, a rich Venetian gentleman laments to his friend Iago about the secret marriage of Othello and Desdemona. Was attributed to Arabs, Berbers, North Africans and Muslim Europeans. The term 'moors' refers to Muslim inhabitants of the Arab west but Shakespeare based his play on the story Un Capitano Moro (A Moorish Captain,) written by the Italian novelist and poet Cinthio. Of racism, betrayal, love, revenge, and forgiveness, and has spawned multiple film, literary, and operatic adaptations. One of Shakespeare's most tightly woven works, it explores themes However, the English still felt a strong suspicion of Islam: Elizabeth issued a degree expelling Moors from Africa and Spanish 'Moriscos' from the boundary of England in 15.William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice,or simply Othello, is a tragedy written in approximately 1603.

Queen Elizabeth herself founded The Barbary Company, formally institutionalizing this trade in addition, she received a delegation of Moroccan diplomats in 1600. The English slave trade also brought blacks to Europe, from mid-sixteenth century onward. In fact, England maintained independent trade relationships with 'Moorish' Northern Africa, despite Spanish and Portuguese protest. In England during Shakespeare's time, views regarding 'Moors' were slightly more complex because of strong anti-Catholic sentiment in England and English fears of invasion by the Spanish. Philip III of Spain expelled 300,000 'Moriscos' from the Iberian (Spanish) peninsula not long after Shakespeare finished Othello, in 1609. The struggle inspired intense prejudice and suspicion that lasted well after the Moors were overthrown. From the eleventh to the fifteenth century, Catholics battled to re-conquer Spain from the Islamic Arabs and Berbers, or Moors, who had successfully occupied it since the 900s.

Shakespeare's moor of venice