Although Shakespeare’s tragedies and history plays are typically male-centred we see in ¬-Othello how Desdemona ultimately de-centres the play by becoming a part of everyone’s life and taking the reader’s focus off her husband Othello, who is the main protagonist and known as the tragic...
Emilia finally finds out that Iago is the evil mastermind to the death of Desdemona when she finds out her husband framed Cassio and Desdemona’s relationship. Emilia explains to Othello the truth about the handkerchief “ that handkerchief thou speak’st of I found by fortune and did give my...
She went on to star opposite her then-husband Jose Ferrer and Paul Muni in "Key Largo" (1939-40) and was the subject of controversy playing Desdemona to Paul Robeson's "Othello" (with Ferrer as Iago). When the show toured, some less liberal audience members were not accepting of a ...
“I will kill thee, And love thee after” – he decides and then stifles her.Desdemona dies innocently at the hands of her beloved husband. When Emilia learns about the plan to accuse Desdemona and her role in it, she is shocked. She ran into Othello’s bedchamber, trying to Othello ...
Once he is gone Iago explains: “And out of her own goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all”(2.3.375-80). From this statement it is clear how Iago has no care towards helping Cassio who needs Desdemona to get his position back, and also for innocent Desdemona who will soon...