Nor from mine owne weake merits will I draw Where vertue is, these are more vertuous:
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Is free of speech, sings, playes, and dances well To say my wife is faire, feedes well, loves company, Matching thy inference: tis not to make me jealous, To such exufflicate, and blowne surmises, When I shall turne the businesse of my soule Is once to be resolu'd: exchange me for a Goate, With fresh suspitions? No, to be once in doubt, Thinkst thou I'de make a life of jealousie? Good heaven, the soules of all my tribe defend To him that ever feares he shall be poore: Poore and content, is rich, and rich enough,īut riches finelesse, is as poore as winter, Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves. Who certaine of his fate, loves not his wronger: It is a green ey'd monster, which doth mocke You cannot, if my heart were in your heart, Twas mine, tis his, and has bin slave to thousands:īut he that filches from me my good name, Who steales my purse, stealses trash, tis something, nothing, Good name in man and woman (deere my Lord) Nor for my manhood, honesty, or wisedome, It were not for your quiet, nor your good, Out of my scattering, and unsure observance As the son of an escaped slave, he knew racism and prejudice, and his outspoken left-wing politics saw him victimised by the US's anti-Communist authorities and media of the 1950s. Robeson was the first black actor since 1860 to perform the role in a major production. The audio clip available here is a 1959 Royal Shakespeare Company performance with African-American actor Paul Robeson (1898-1976) playing Othello. The play has also been the basis for numerous operatic, film, and literary adaptations.
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Because of its varied themes - racism, love, jealousy, and betrayal - Othello is widely felt to remain relevant to the present day and is often performed in professional and community theatres alike.
The work revolves around four central characters: Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army his wife Desdemona his lieutenant, Cassio and his trusted ensign Iago. Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story 'Un Capitano Moro' ('A Moorish Captain') by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565.
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