Othello
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Title page, first quarto, 1622
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First performance
1604
Literature form
Play
Genres
Tragedy
Writing language
English
Author's country
England
Length
Five acts, 3,551 lines, approx. 27,000 words
Notable lines
Tush! Never tell me! I take it much unkindly
That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse
As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this.
— First lines
For I am nothing if not critical.
Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
Is tupping your white ewe.
Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
Myself will straight aboard, and to the state
This heavy act with heavy heart relate.
— Last lines
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