When he questions Desdemona, she swears her innocence. Othello questions Emilia about Desdemona, but Emilia declares Desdemona renews her pleas for Cassio, and Othello strikes When Cassio has gone, Iago incites Othello’s jealousyįurther. Othello looks on unseen as Iago talks to Cassio,Īnd Desdemona’s handkerchief is returned to Cassio by his Handkerchief, and suggests again that they are lovers. ( Act 4) Iago reminds Othello that Cassio has Desdemona’s Cassio findsĭesdemona’s handkerchief in his room and, not knowing it is When Desdemona renews her pleas on behalf of Cassio, OthelloĪsks for the handkerchief and she denies it is lost. Iago tells him that she has given the handkerchief toĬassio. Othello, growingĮver more jealous, demands that Iago give him proof of Desdemona’s Handkerchief which was her first and greatly valued gift from her When Desdemona appeals to Othello to help Cassio, she drops the Iago suggests to Othello that Cassio and Desdemona may be lovers. ( Act 3) Othello comes upon Cassio asking Desdemona for her help. To ask Desdemona to plead his case with Othello. Othello enters, and Iago tells him that the quarrel He plies both Roderigo and Cassio with drink and sets Iago tells Roderigo thatĭesdemona loves Cassio, and incites him to challenge Othello’s Othello, delayed by a storm, arrives shortlyĪfterwards and greets Desdemona lovingly. ( Act 2) Desdemona arrives in Cyprus, escorted by Iago, his wifeĮmilia, and Roderigo. John Gielgud as Othello, 'Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors', Him to follow her to Cyprus, and suggests he will be able to cuckold Roderigo, in love with Desdemona, despairs. Othello is posted to Cyprus, toĭefend the island against the Turks. When she entersĪnd takes her husband’s side against her father, Brabantio Othello describes how he courted and won Desdemona. Othello and Brabantio appear before the Venetian Senate, and Has eloped with Othello, the general of the Venetian army and a Tell Brabantio, a Venetian senator, that his daughter Desdemona Over as Othello’s lieutenant in favour of Cassio. ( Act 1) Iago, ensign to Othello, complains that he has been passed Othello is set first in Venice, and then on the island Shakespeare used Lewkenor for his depiction of Venice and its ruling nobility in the first act of Othello. Lewkenor’s work drew on a Latin text by Cardinal Contarini. Gasparo Contarini, translated by Sir Lewis Lewkenor, The Commonwealth and Gouernment of Venice (1599).Shakespeare possibly used this work for the exotic details of Othello’s experience. Pliny the Elder, translated by Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World (1601).Several sources were particularly important for the creation of Othello.
The second quarto was printed by Augustine Mathewes for Hawkins and appeared in 1630.īritish Library copies of Othello contains detailed bibliographic descriptions of all the quarto copies of the play. Walkely transferred his copyright in Othello to Richard Hawkins on 1 March 1628. The first quarto was printed by Nicholas Okes for Walkley and appeared in 1622. Othello was entered by Thomas Walkley on the Stationers’ Register on 6 October 1621. Printed from the first quarto, with amendments probably derived from the first folio.
Believed to have been printed from a scribal transcript (probably by Ralph Crane) of Shakespeare’s fair copy of the play. The text is also among the few to have page numbers. Othello is the first of the ‘good’ quartos of Shakespeare’s plays to divide the text into acts. Believed to have been printed from a scribal transcript of Shakespeare’s foul papers. Othello appeared in four editions before 1642. Was played at court by the King’s Men on 1 November 1604. The play ‘hath beene diuerse times acted at the Globe, andĪt the Black-Friers, by his Maiesties seruants’. The title-page of the first quarto, published in 1622, states that These suggest that Othello must have been written by early 1603, and probably before July 1602 when Hamlet was entered on the Stationers’ Register. There are several echoes of Othello in the first quarto of Hamlet, published in 1603. One important source for Othello was Philemon Holland’s translation of Pliny, Historie of the World, published in 1601. Othello has been dated to between mid-1601 and mid-1602.
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