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	Othello - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Othello and Desdemona in Venice" by Théodore Chassériau (1819–1856)
		Othello is referred to as a "Moor"; for Elizabethan Englishmen, this term could refer to the Arabs of North Africa, or to the people we would now call "fl" (that is, people of sub-Saharan African descent).
		Othello's tragic flaw is thus that he is unable to cope with the notion that the relationship between signifier and signified is arbitrary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Othello (1077 words)

	Desdemona (Othello) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Desdemona is a fictional character in the play Othello by William Shakespeare.
		She is both lightskinned and innocent; Shakespeare uses her as a symbol of purity to contrast malevolent Iago and his worldly wife, Emilia.
		Desdemona is often viewed as a self-sacrificing Christ figure somewhat like Cordelia from another Shakespeare play, King Lear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Desdemona_(Othello) (119 words)

	ALEXANDRE MARIE COLIN - Othello and Desdemona (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Othello and Desdemona is a bravura work, faithful to the text, and full of energy and color.
		The scene portrayed is set with the direction "he draws back a curtain, revealing Desdemona asleep in her bed" (Othello, Act 5, scene 2, introduction).
		After accusing her of infidelity with Cassio, - in a scene during which Desdemona pleads hopelessly for her life, Othello smothers her with the pillow.
	www.europeanpaintings.com /exhibits/romantic/colinoth.htm (158 words)

	SparkNotes: Othello: Plot Overview
		Desdemona insists that she accompany her husband on his trip, and preparations are made for them to depart that night.
		Othello becomes upset and moody, and Iago furthers his goal of removing both Cassio and Othello by suggesting that Cassio and Desdemona are involved in an affair.
		Desdemona and Othello go to dinner, and Emilia picks up the handkerchief, mentioning to the audience that Iago has always wanted her to steal it for him.
	www.sparknotes.com /shakespeare/othello/summary.html (1771 words)

	The Role Of Desdemona In Shakespeare's Othello
		By marrying Othello, Desdemona was showing that she was strong enough and educated enough to break the societal confines of passivity for women (Walker 2).
		Desdemona’s concise statement about her love was revealed with balance and health when she said: I saw Othello’s visage in his mind, And to his honours and his valiant parts Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.
		Desdemona, although an intelligent woman seeking liberation, fell into Iago’s trap because she loved Othello and was upset that he had considered her a “whore.” She was a very trusting person and did not think that Iago would her hurt.
	www.freeessays.cc /db/42/saq209.shtml (2170 words)

	William Rudolf Long and Insults and Desdemona and Othello and Shakespeare and rage
		Othello has already concluded that the women are unreliable, either that they are deceptive or are "subtile whores" or "simple bawds." His tidal wave of personal anguish cascades over all who come in contact with him.
		Desdemona immediately realizes his perverse intent: "What horrible fancy's this (4.2.26)?" Instead of answering Desdemona, Othello turns to Emilia and treats her as a madam.
		What he really wants from Desdemona is not her admission, not her words of comfort, but for her to hear him as he speaks his protest to the world and the gods and whoever will listen about how his inner collapse (see mini-essay on Othello and Job) has utterly destroyed his soul.
	www.willamette.edu /~blong/ShakeO/InsultsIII.html (1038 words)

	Othello by William Shakespeare: A searchable online version at The Literature Network
		Desdemona says she doesn't have it, but promises it is not lost.
		At the citadel, Othello questions Emilia about Desdemona's honesty; she swears Desdemona is honest, though Othello summons Desdemona and accuses her of being disloyal and a shore, all while himself weeping.
		Othello explains that Cassio had Desdemona's handkerchief, given to him by her, but Emilia laments that she found it and gave it to Iago.
	www.online-literature.com /shakespeare/othello (2549 words)

	Othello and Desdemona's Motivations
		Even if Iago's construal of Desdemona's actions in the context of the alleged Venetian practice of feminine infidelity might easily be rebutted [fear and attraction, for example, are not mutually incompatible emotions], Desdemona herself has provided enough doubts of her sole fidelity to Othello to make one wonder.
		My conclusion about Desdemona at this point is that she probably is fully committed to Othello but probably also overwhelmed by the heady atmosphere of intrigue and love at the center of Cyprus politics.
		Her love for Othello might be true and faithful, but as Shakespeare knows, love doesn't easily flow in nicely carved rivulets, even if the institution that carves those little rivers is marriage.
	www.willamette.edu /~blong/ShakeO/DesdemonasLoves.html (888 words)

	Othello Summary
		Othello, Moorish commander of the armed forces of Venice, had secretly married Desdemona, the much younger daughter of the respected Senator Brabantio.
		When Desdemona appeared and professed her love for Othello, the Duke cleared him of wrongdoing, saying to Brabantio, "If virtue no delighted beauty lack, / Your son-in-law is far more fair than fl." Then the Duke directed his courageous commander to lead the Venetian forces to Cyprus in its defense.
		Othello lunged at Iago, wounding him, but was restrained by the nobles from finishing the deed.
	www.awerty.com /othello2.html (1494 words)

	Free Essay Othello - Desdemona (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Othello’s view of Desdemona may have changed due to the presence of an evil force, that being Iago, but Desdemona still loves her husband and claims she was true to him.
		Desdemona reveals her fear of Othello and informs that she is guilty of nothing.
		Othello begins to believe in Iago and does not trust himself to believe that Desdemona is in fact pure and virtuous.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=25465 (2869 words)

	Othello
		Othello tells Desdemona that the scarf is magical, that an Egyptian sorcerer had given it to his mother with the understanding that as long as she kept the scarf she would retain her husband's love, but if she ever lost it, her husband's love would turn to hatred and infidelity.
		Desdemona tells Cassio that she cannot at present continue the suit for his reinstatement because Othello is beside himself with anger for her.
		Othello can see by Cassio's tone and gesture that he thinks the woman he's talking about is love stricken with him, but that he does not really care for her and considers her a whore.
	www.hermes-press.com /othello.htm (5332 words)

	The Discourse of Honesty and Whoredom in Othello
		Desdemona is a "public commoner" (a euphemism for "whore"), that even the "bawdy wind, that kisses all it meets" does not wish to hear of (IV.ii.73, 78); she is an "Impudent strumpet," and the "cunning whore of Venice
		In the moments before and after killing Desdemona, Othello refers to her as "perjur'd woman," "strumpet," "whore," "false," "a liar," and "foul," playing as one thundering chord all of the play's notes of honesty and whoredom.
		The tragedy of the fall of Othello and the deaths of Desdemona and Emilia is perhaps also the tragedy of the dominance of the views of Joseph Swetnam over those of Thomas Gataker and the anonymous author of A Defence of Womenkinde.
	www.brysons.net /academic/othello.html (2135 words)

	Othello Navigator: Desdemona's Advocacy
		What she has done in eloping with Othello is "downright violence" in the sense that it has violated social norms; she has not let her father arrange her marriage or even asked his permission to marry.
		Desdemona is asserting that she is very much like her husband and belongs with him, even in war.
		In the course of persuading Cassio that an appeal to Desdemona is the best way to get his job back, Iago says of her, "She is of so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition, she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more than she is requested" (2.3.319-322).
	www.clicknotes.com /othello/Desadvoc.html (491 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		Othello as a stranger in a strange land: In order to understand how and why Iago's rhetoric might work so effectively against Othello, students should also be made aware of the powerful general's vulnerability: he is a Moor in an alien society, first in the city of Venice and then on the isle of Cyprus.
		In short, Othello is an "other," and the fact that he is a Moor surrounded by Italians and Cypriots only emphasizes his difference.
		In the play, she did not effectively deter Othello from altering his misguided opinion that she is a whore; inevitably, her failure frustrates many students who say, "If she just spoke up for herself things will be different!".
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=400 (2866 words)

	Dr. J's Othello Study Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Desdemona tries to comfort her obviously upset husband, but Othello throws her handkerchief to the ground.
		Othello is even more convinced that Desdemona is being deceitful when she is unable to produce the handkerchief.
		Desdemona reveals a sweet naiveté about the world, while Emilia is more cynical, charging that women have no less a right to be unfaithful than men.
	lilt.ilstu.edu /drjclassics/syllabi/IH/othello.shtm (1304 words)

	ANALYSIS : 'Put Out the Light: Othello and Angel' by M’lyn the Cursed : Buffy News : Slayage.com
		Othello, overhearing the conversation, has been led to believe that the subject is not Bianca but Desdemona.
		But Desdemona is killed on her bed, and Angelus similarly defiled Fred's bedroom by revealing, “I hear you at night.
		Just as Desdemona was punished for losing something between her and Othello, so were both Fred and Gunn “punished” for losing love and trust.
	www.slayage.com /articles/000016.html (3916 words)

	ArtSavant - reviews - Desdemona and Othello (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Desdemona, a Play About a Handkerchief, is a topsy-turvy rendition of how the tragedy Othello would differ if, indeed, Desdemona was a strumpet.
		Detached from Othello, the play effectively exposes a washtub full of women's issues, as unresolved today as they were in Cyprus 400 years ago.
		Emilia, sporting an Irish brogue as thick as her scorn, is a poor, religious servant to the fickle Desdemona.
	artsavant.com /reviews/2002lmt0112.html (574 words)

	In Mixed Company's "Desdemona..."and "Othello.."
		Director Kevin Kerrigan takes on these two feminist plays, but brings to his direction the same over-the-top attitude that he gives his performances, and while it works with the first play of the evening, it is the absolute wrong choice for the second.
		In this revisionistic consideration, Desdemona is a spoiled brat as far from the virginal Shakespeare creation as possible, while Emelia, Iago's wife and Desdemona's hand maiden, is portrayed as an uptight, religious Irish washer woman.
		Steven's overplays Desdemona as a hateful, preening, oversexed kitten, making it difficult to feel sympathy for her ultimate and destined demise.
	www.loonnews.com /mychele/aaro/desdemona.html (725 words)

	Othello Navigator: Desdemona's Obedience
		In the dark at Brabantio's house, when Roderigo shouts out the news of Desdemona's elopement, he portrays her as a rebellious child, saying to Brabantio that she "hath made a gross revolt; / Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes / In an extravagant and wheeling stranger / Of here and every where" (1.1.134-137).
		It appears that Desdemona sees her womanly duty not as something that is required of her, but as her expression of love and respect.
		Among other things, Iago says that Othello will do anything that Desdemona asks because "His soul is so enfetter'd to her love, / That she may make, unmake, do what she list, / Even as her appetite shall play the god / With his weak function" (2.3.345-348).
	www.clicknotes.com /othello/Desdobed.html (419 words)

	Desdemona Desdemona. Uranus X - 1986u6. Desdemona Is Named After The Wife Of Othello In Shakespeare's Play (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Desdemona is now free for distribution and no registration is required Desdemona_ is a board.
		Desdemona is the Director of the Dream Harem Belly Dance Troupe of Tyler and sponsors annual recitals for her students.
		Desdemona and Emelia Are Dead In trying to explain Othello and Desdemona to the dense Attitude girl, the three act out portions of the play, with.
	www.99hosted.com /names1286.html (440 words)

	Othello (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Description Costume rendering for Roderigo in Othello: brown hat with red and brown feathers, light brown doublet with white collar, gold-colored pin and neckwear, dark brown cape with fringe, bright yellow trousers with ties below knees, yellow tights and shoes.
		Description Costume renderings for Othello in Othello, two figures in same costume: white sleeveless hooded robe, clasped at neck with gold-colored pin, cream shirt, fl tights and shoes.
		Description Costume rendering for Othello in Othello: white and red hat, white open- chested shirt under open fl jacket, gold-colored neckwear, fl trousers, red sash at waist, fl boots, pale yellow cape.
	images.library.uiuc.edu /projects/motley/othello.htm (1162 words)

	Othello (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brabantio hesitates to believe them, since Roderigo has been an unwelcome suitor to his daughter, but he soon finds she is missing.
		At the Duke's chambers, Brabantio accuses Othello of using spells and potions to win Desdemona.
		She tells him she has tried, but Othello has become irritable.
	jjorg.chem.unc.edu /personal/monroe/shakespeare/othello.html (1458 words)

	Othello Desdemona
		[Garner elucidates Desdemona's character, maintaining that Shakespeare carefully balanced the other characters' accounts of her as goddess or whore to present a complex portrait.
		Othello's sensual view is countered by Brabantio's idealized concept in Act I and Roderigo and Cassio's romanticized vision is opposed by Iago's coarse innuendo in Act II.
		Garner then points out that Desdemona's liveliness and assertiveness are confirmed by her marriage to Othello and that these positive traits become a fatal liability.
	www.enotes.com /othello/17323 (126 words)

	Othello Study Questions
		In response to Brabantio's accusation that Othello has bewitched his daughter, Othello explains how she originally fell in love with him.
		As Emilia prepares her mistress's wedding bed, Desdemona talks of her mother's servant Barbary who was forsaken by a mad lover, 4.3.25ff; then she and Emilia talk about whether they would be unfaithful to their husbands or not (4.3.60ff).
		As he enters Desdemona's bedchamber in order to kill her, Othello mutters: "It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul." What is he talking about?
	www.people.vcu.edu /~bgriffin/Othello/oth-sq.htm (614 words)

	Desdemona (Othello) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Desdemona (Othello) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		She is both lightskinned and innocent; Shakespeare uses her as a symbol of purity to contrast malevolent (The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife) Iago and his worldly wife, Emilia.
		Desdemona is a self-sacrificing Christ figure somewhat like (Click link for more info and facts about Cordelia) Cordelia from another Shakespeare play, (The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters) King Lear.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/de/desdemona_(othello)1.htm (125 words)

	Othello Why does Desdemona Marry Othello?
		In the last scene of Othello, Desdemona recovers long enough from the smothering that her jealous husband has inflicted upon her to pronounce her complete innocence, and with her last breath tells Emilia, "a guiltless death I die" (V, ii., l.120).
		Plainly, Iago has deceived Othello into believing that his beautiful young wife has committed adultery with his once-trusted second in command, Cassio.
		That being so, Desdemona is clearly innocent of the charges embodied in Iago's cunning innuendoes, and is a victim who does not deserve the tragic end that she suffers.
	www.enotes.com /othello/744 (143 words)

	Othello Opposites Attract: Othello and Desdemona
		Frequently drama teachers ill explain to their students that the essence of drama is conflict.
		In Shakespeare's Othello, conflict on the social and political levels are an essential part of the story.
		Yet within the relationship of Othello and Desdemona, one that should be conflict-free, we find the most important and the deepest rifts.
	www.allshakespeare.com /othello/748 (147 words)

	Search Tuna Report for photos of the play othello (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The information provided in this section of william-shakespeare includes famous quotes / quotations from Othello, summary of the plot or story, facts about the play, a list of the cast and characters and access to the full text - script of Othello is a highly esteemed general in the service of Venice.
		Othello Re: Race And Othello Shakespearean Comdey Shakespeare...
		Othello / William Shakespeare Criticism - A. He Has Not, Indeed, The Meditative Or Speculative Imagination Of Hamlet; But In The Strictest Sense Of The Word He Is More Poetic Than Hamlet....
	www.searchtuna.com /ftlive2/1355.html (1925 words)

	Desdemona (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Abdulaziz Ghuloum has created a set of alternetive pixmaps for desdemona.
		They look quite nice, have a look at the screenshoot.
		For now you have to replace the original pixmaps with these (just untar them in the desdemona directory) but maby a pixmap-selection-utility will be written.
	hobbe.lub.lu.se /~bjorn/othello.html (137 words)

	Othello and Desdemona: they did (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Okay my computer did something funny so this was probably better the first time I wrote it, sorry about that.
		It would seem to me that Othello and Desdemona had consummated their marriage.
		Of course this becomes even more important given that Desdemona's lifeblood is shed on the same sheets which her virgin blood was shed upon, and to make even more of an impact, both are at the hands of the same man.
	www.unca.edu /~ssawin/_disc10/000000b0.htm (175 words)

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