What was
Shakespeare's inspiration for othello
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In the Elizabethan theaters, playwrights worked together, borrowed from each other, some say they stole from each other. Sometimes they even wrote for each other. Quite often they wrote plays based on tales from other lands and histories. So what actually inspired Shakespeare into writing Othello?
Shakespeare was a chronicle at that time and Venice was an important trading post and link between Europe and the East. That's why Shakespeare may have chosen to set the play in Venice. It is believed that Shakespeare based Othello on a short story called Gli Hecatommithi, which was published in 1565 by Geraldi Cinthio. This story, which centered around the commander deceived by his soldier, was transformed by Shakespeare in a play.
Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinzio (usually referred to as Cinthio) was an Italian author, who, in 1565, wrote a prose tale whose plot greatly resembled that of Othello. It tells the story of a general, a Moor, whose ensign makes him to believe that his wife was unfaithful to him. Evidently, Shakespeare compresses the time into several scenes and adds his own touch by including characters such as Rodrigo or Brabanzio, the father of Desdemonda, and the plot in which that ensign minor villain becomes an archvillain.
To add some dramatics, the playwright sets the play at the time of the turkish invasion of Cyprus ( Cyprus was a Venetian outpost during this war that was attacked and later conquered during this war, which took place in 1570) which was described in detail in Richard Knolles's "History of the Turks".
Shakespeare's decision to make a black man the hero was just pure imagination . Black Moors were usually depicted as sinful and murderous, Othello, however was the wrongly deceived innocent. There is some conflict in deciding what race Othello really belongs to. In Shakespeare's London, it was a broad term assigned to nearly every person with a dark skin tone, and referred to most Africans. Today, the term Moor refers to those Muslim Arabs of North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya), who conquered Spain in the eighth century. All Moors were seen as animalistic and brutish by most Elizabethans, however, Othello is noble and honorable. Iago is the only character in the play who resorts to stereotypical generalizations, which perhaps lends to his desire to see Othello brought down.
The first staging of Othello was performed before King James 1 in the Banqueting House at Whitehall on the 1st of November 1604.
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