Shakespeare's 1604 tragedy following Othello — a Moorish general in the Venetian army — whose ensign Iago, passed over for promotion, manipulates him into believing his wife Desdemona is unfaithful, leading to his murder of her and subsequent suicide.
Creates the most searching dramatic analysis of jealousy — and Iago as one of the most disturbing villains in literature, whose motiveless malignity (Coleridge) or surplus motivation (everything he says about his motives) raises the deepest questions about evil's relationship to rationality.
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