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Othello and Desdemona in Venice by ThΓ©odore ChassΓ©riau (1819-1856)

The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, often shortened to Othello,[a] is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare around 1603. Set in Venice and Cyprus, the play depicts the Moorish military commander Othello as he is manipulated by his ensign, Iago, into suspecting his wife Desdemona of infidelity. Othello is widely considered one of Shakespeare's greatest works and is usually classified among his major tragedies alongside Macbeth, King Lear, and Hamlet. Unpublished in the author's life, the play survives in one quarto edition from 1622 and in the First Folio.

Othello has been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, both among playgoers and literary critics, since its first performance, spawning numerous stage, screen, and operatic adaptations. Among actors, the roles of Othello, Iago, Desdemona, and Emilia (Iago's wife) are regarded as highly demanding and desirable. Critical attention has focused on the nature of the play's tragedy, its unusual mechanics, its treatment of race, and on the motivations of Iago and his relationship to Othello. Originally performed by white actors in dark makeup, the role of Othello began to be played by black actors in the 19th century.

Shakespeare's major source for the play was a novella by Cinthio, the plot of which Shakespeare borrowed and reworked substantially. Though not among Shakespeare's longest plays, it contains two of his four longest roles in Othello and Iago.

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] ghosts@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Remembering when Kim Jong Un said Biden is like a rabid dog who should be beaten to death with a stick lmao

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[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago (4 children)

It's official, I "did my thing" with the vegan teriyaki chicken wraps i made. Source: a college football player

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Someone in a Teams meeting just said β€œIt’s the old chicken and the egg question isn’t it? Why did they cross the road?” then realised what they’d said and turned their camera off.

[–] someone@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago

When they hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards.

Checkmate.

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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm glad Zohran is going to win so that I hopefully don't have to hear quite so much about New York City every fucking day.

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[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

My girlfriend doesn't like it when I change the lyrics to K-pop demon hunters songs to be about them having two wives. So I told her if she doesn't like that then she SHOULD NOT go on her image sharing platform of choice and search for the hashtag #polytrix because it will be full of cute art of the three of them just hanging out as a thruple

[–] Gorillatactics@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

An upside of social isolation is that you're never close enough to other people to catch the flu. I say this because I went to the movies recently and now Im sick.

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[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

One of the ladies on the radlib wine mom podcast struggles with pronouncing Mamdani. They've literally had him on their pod and are both glowing advocates of his. The middle-aged angloid might simply be genetically incapable of pronouncing even the simplest non-Western names.

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[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Vegan teriyaki chicken wraps, candied sweet potato chips and japanese style salt cured vegetables (sunomono with carrots and radishes)

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I want to steal you and put you in charge of my campus' kitchen. You know what they had yesterday for their vegan option? A vegan wrap with falafel, shredded cabbage and no condiments.

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

you are really good at your job and they should pay you more

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If Cuomo loses it's because he didn't bring up Hasan Piker's dog collar

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My appetite is back. This is tremendous news

Dark Souls is an allegory for how drinking copious amounts of coffee to stay awake isn't healthy for you and at some point you should really just go to bed already.

Don’t like bodybuilders? How bout multimillionaire. How bout 8 inches and thick. How bout talented. How bout loving and respectful. I lost my wife 10 weeks ago, 21 years faithful. My daughter committed suicide 3 weeks ago. 13. She was faster than me at 12, and I run a 6 minute mile. My testimony and I'm nothing but pure and I asked you if you wanna be in a youtube channel. But you like scrawny guys.

my GF is watching House and I hate all the constant beeping from monitors and alarms, it makes me feel like there's a timer I set going off

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

My dying wish is to see an actual socialist as mayor in some US city. Lmao the fact that so many New Yorkers are shitting their pants over a soc dem is extremely radicalizing imo

[–] halfpipe@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

It's amazing how the billionaires are openly shitting their pants at the thought a moderate socialist getting elected on a promise to freeze rent and open some city owned grocery stores to get the price of staple foods down. Really shows how they've faced 0 pushback at all in the past 30 years.

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 children)

Experimenting with the greeting meta, so far fist bump up close (especially the bus drivers) is always welcomed but what about when someone is to far away? Well the solution for me so far is smile and wave kirby-wave so far this has worked out well for me and made people smile in return. creature I'll update as I figure this out more on further results and new strats that work in 2025.

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[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Inconceivable the number of votes Cuomo is getting

[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes, that is really crazy. A disgraced former governor, very unlikeable and he is still getting like ~40% of the vote.

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[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago (4 children)

"We dont want history to be railroaded" is codeword for Paradox Interactive to make the base game bland and sell you "flavor packs" to actually make the regions feel different.

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

tbf "paradox interactive" is a code word for "we will nickel and dime you for ~$600 by the end of this game's life cycle"

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

Pirate/dlc unlocker is practically mandatory for those games

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[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I am WAY too snug of a bug rn I do not wanna get out of bed comfy-cool

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

Noticed on my way home from work this haloween when the last of the trick er treat kids were fading and the opening volley of college kids hit the streets that 1)a lot of dudes seemed to be dressed as tv characters or something thar are just dude in a suit and 2)you cant just dress up Goth for haloween.

Also there was someone dressed as the Joker and that's really irresponsible cause it could have been the real guy!

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Sorry if this question is stupid, but how based is Android? I know next to nothing about technology, and I figure it can't hurt to actually know what's going under the hood, and possibly if this could be a viable career choice.

Just reading off of Wikipedia, Android's a FOSS operating system, but I know that Google has made a lot of contributions to the project which does raise some red flags. I'm going to hold on to my iPhone until it gives out, but when I will have to make the switch, Android seems interesting as an alternative.

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[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yay it's the time of year when I get to explain why I refuse to wear a poppy over and over

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Say that it seems tasteless what with the opioid crisis. Pray they dont know the difference between an opioid and opiates

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

Oooo that's a good bit, I'm going to start saying the poppy represents the opium fields troops were guarding in Afghanistan

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Thyroid Clan coming at you,

ya best inspect ya neck

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

EVs are cool and electric motorcycles are fun but the public charging network in the US suuuuuuucks

just had to move to another charger and sit back down at a rest stop because the charger connected, started working, gave me about 2%, and then crapped out. Thing is it didn't tell methat it crapped out, so I sat around for a half hour and went back outside to find my bike still uncharged.

At least they didn't charge me a "session fee" and put two $50 holds on my debit card this time.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Never noticed how TV-star-studded Scream 2 is; Buffy, Foreman from House, Jeff from Community and Monica from Friends

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I’m keeping pictures of random stock photo actors, a handgun, $50k in cash, and 5 fake passports in a safety deposit box as a little Easter egg for my kids when I pass.

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[–] Carl@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

programming an enemy for my game

enemy searches for the player through an asteroid field

urge to listen to the Splinter Cell Chaos Theory soundtrack while I work on it

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[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

mope-postingI really should just go back to my more traumatized days of avoiding making friendships. Usually people don't really want to be good friends, I misinterpret their engagement with me as an acquaintance as something more and get let down when I realize they don't really care to have anything to do with me.

When I do make friends, it seems that I just fucking piss them off and I'm insensitive and invalidating and say the wrong things. I'm especially bad at validating people when they are engaging in unhealthy thought patterns and shit, and people hate that.

Instead of trying to be better at making friends I should just work on accepting the fact that most relationships are harmful to me and I'm harmful to the people around me.

[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

FUCK I should have listened to my advice about Mercury Retrograde. Stupid planets

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The people who had a job for like a couple years and then spend the rest of their lives writing about that weird me out. Like ypu shouldnt write more books about your time doing a job than years you did that job imo

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[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

I ate a protein cookie from work at like 7 am and have been farting for like 9 hours now

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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago

Communist who flees New York because Zohran is a Social Democrat.

[–] makotech222@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

just sittin around waiting for the EU5 unlock in 2 hours

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