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The Tragedy of Othello,

the Moor of VeniceByWilliam Shakespeare

+Essential Questions to Consider

about the play

What is the relationship between personal choices and the consequences of those choices?

How is pride an asset or a detriment to making choices?

+Essential Questions to Consider

about the play

How do jealousy, betrayal and loyalty figure into the decisions we make?

How does society’s treatment of the outsider influence the choices we make?

+ Othello, the play

•First performance: November 1, 1604

•Setting: Act 1 – Venice; Acts 2-4 – Cyprus

•One of the great Shakespearean Tragedies

+ Othello, the characters•Othello, the Moor

•Iago, the ancient

•Cassio, the lieutenant

•Desdemona, the fair lady

•Roderigo, the gullible dupe

•Emilia, the lady in waiting

+Qualities of aTragic Hero

Possess great importance or high rank

Exhibits extraordinary talents

Displays a tragic flaw-error in judgment or defect in character that leads to downfall

Faces downfall with courage and dignity

+Key Themes in Othello

+A Cultural and Political Context

for the play

Exhibition curator Jeffrey

Forgeng helps us to understand

Mediterranean warfare at the

time of Othello would have lived.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHB95FZndcc

+A Cultural and Political Context

for the play

Arms and Armor in Shakespeare

A Folger exhibition inspires a look at the changing military and its weapons and how that is revealed in Shakespeare's plays like Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet, among others. Featuring Jeffrey Forgeng of the Higgins Armory Museum and Barbara Mowat, Co-Editor of the Folger Editions.

http://www.folger.edu/documents/Armor_podcast.mp3

+OTHELLO, a movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOBdwb7Xnfo

+WORKS CITED

Introduction to Othello Powerpoint http://jfks.pbworks.com/HandoutsBecci McDaniel, JF Kennedy HSBerlin, Germany

+Othello PowerPoints:

ditechnology.wikispaces.com/file/view/Othello+power+point.ppt

+Works Cited:Museum Page: 1. Trey Lyford (Iago) Othello, Folger Theatre, 2002. Directed by Aaron Posner.Carol Pratt. 2. Craig Wallace in title role, Othello, Folger Theatre, 2002. Directed by Aaron Posner.Carol Pratt. 3. Craig Wallace as Othello, Suli Holum Desdemona, Othello, Folger Theatre, 2002. Directed by Aaron Posner.Carol Pratt. 4. John Rogers, Othello: “Ha! I like not that!” Hand-painted plaster, 1882. 5. Robert Edmund Jones, Costume design for Paul Robeson as Othello. Drawing, 1943. 6. John Dowland, The First Booke of Songes or Ayres of fowre partes with Tableture for the Lute. London, 1596 (Detail).

+Works Cited:Museum Page: 7. Folio cover 8. The Dexter Portrait of Shakespeare. Oil on panel, 19th Century. 9. H.C. Selous, “Oh, my fair warrior!/My dear Othello!” Illustration for Othello, Act 2, scene 1, lines 197-198. 10. Solomon Alexander Hart, Othello and Iago, Engraving, late 19th Century. 11. Ludovico Marchetti. Othello, Act 4 scene 3. “Shall I go fetch…” Watercolor drawing, 19th Century 12. Alexander Niccholes. A discourse of marriage and wiving. London. 1615. 13. Cover for Othello DVD with Lawrence Fishburn