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Notes on Shakespeare’s Othello

Iago hates Othello partly because he is racist, partly because Othello has passed him over for the senior army post of lieutenant in favour of Cassio, and partly because he suspects that Othello has slept with Emilia. He also says that he “loves” Desdemona, though he qualifies this as not being “out of absolute lust”; […]