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A story of love, racism, jealousy and betrayal.
Desdemona is a character in Othello, the Moor of Venice, a tragedy by William Shakespeare. She is a Venetian beauty who enrages and disappoints her father, a Venetian senator, when she elopes with Othello, a man several years her senior and not of her race but a brave general in the Venetian military. When her husband is deployed to Cyprus in the service of the Republic of Venice, Desdemona accompanies him. There, her husband is manipulated by his ensign Iago into believing she is an adultress. Othello, enraged and hurt, despite Desdemona's claims of innocence suffocates her in bed and then kills himself with a dagger. -> more [link]

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man: stock photo [link] by Marcus Ranum www.ranum.com

Description
A story of love, racism, jealousy and betrayal.
Desdemona is a character in Othello, the Moor of Venice, a tragedy by William Shakespeare. She is a Venetian beauty who enrages and disappoints her father, a Venetian senator, when she elopes with Othello, a man several years her senior and not of her race but a brave general in the Venetian military. When her husband is deployed to Cyprus in the service of the Republic of Venice, Desdemona accompanies him. There, her husband is manipulated by his ensign Iago into believing she is an adultress. Othello, enraged and hurt, despite Desdemona's claims of innocence suffocates her in bed and then kills himself with a dagger. -> more [link]

CREDITS
man: stock photo [link] by Marcus Ranum www.ranum.com