Detailed commentary and analysis by Claire’s Notes of Act I, scene i, of ‘Othello’ by William Shakespeare
Iago and Roderigo are out in the street in the middle of the night in Venice, plotting against Iago’s master, the army general Othello. They wake the vain and pompous Brabantio, who is ignorant of the fact that his daughter, Desdemona, has run away to marry Othello in secret. Brabantio is outraged at the news that she has married a man of a different race and musters a search party with torches and weapons.
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