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A list of important context when writing essays about Othello.

The list includes:

  • Dramatic Genre
    - Morality plays
    - Comedy
  • Aristotelian Tragedy
  • Courtly Love
  • Shakespeare’s Sources
    - Gli Hecatommithi
    - A Geographical Historie of Africa
    - Leo Africanus
    - The Book of Marvels and Travels
  • Early Modern Performances of Othello
  • Jacobean views of Venice, Italy and Cyprus
  • Relationships with and stereotypical views of Moorish Turks and Islam
  • Relationships with and stereotypical views of Moorish Africans
  • Shakespeare’s Other Moors in his Plays
  • England’s Contemporary Treatment of Foreigners

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