... Shakespeare, undoubtedly the most famous literary figure of all time, wrote many plays in his lifetime including four major tragedies - Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Othello. This publication focuses on Othello only, and contains a selection of various critical interpretations ... justifying his intended crime. Othello then calls Desdemona degrading names such as "strumpet-, "whore-, "liar- and "false- moments before and after he murders her, while she pleas for her life. As her patriarch, he is given the authority and power to do with her as he pleases, to take away her ... the Veneti...

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