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Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy (c. 1604)

Othello = Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy

Othello = main character of Shakespeare's tragedy by the same name

Othello is believed to have been written in 1603 based upon a story written in 1565.

Othello = Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy

That which overwhelmed Othello glides innocuous over Candide.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

Othello = main character of Shakespeare's tragedy by the same name

I'm lounging on my bedroll reading Othello and Walter is on his cot reading Wordsworth.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants

Othello = Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy

But Othello did not begin hiding, spying, peeping.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov

Othello = main character of Shakespeare's tragedy by the same name

The New York Tribune called him "a bold and courageous man reminiscent of Othello, proud, intelligent-looking, and of noble bearing."
Alexs Pate -- Amistad

Othello = main character of Shakespeare's tragedy by the same name

From its hiding-place he took out his mouse-nibbled volume, turned with religious care its stained and crumbled pages, and began to read Othello.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

Othello = Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy

"Can you imagine," said Monte Cristo, "some Othello or Abbe de Ganges, one stormy, dark night, descending these stairs step by step, carrying a load, which he wishes to hide from the sight of man, if not from God?"
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo

Othello = main character of Shakespeare's tragedy by the same name

We might perhaps have most of Othello; and a good deal of Antony; but no Caesar, no Brutus, no Hamlet, no Lear, no Jaques—literature would be incredibly impoverished, as indeed literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women.
Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own

Othello = Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy

Neither Hamlet, nor Macbeth, nor Othello, nor Douglas, nor The Gamester, presented anything that could satisfy even the tragedians; and The Rivals, The School for Scandal, Wheel of Fortune, Heir at Law, and a long et cetera, were successively dismissed with yet warmer objections.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

Othello = Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy

Othello = Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy

All the tonic effects of murdering Desdemona and being murdered by Othello, without any of the inconveniences.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

Othello = main character of Shakespeare's tragedy by the same name

Othello = main character of Shakespeare's tragedy by the same name

For the same reason as we don't give them Othello: they're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

Othello = Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy

Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

Othello = Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy

And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

Othello = Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy

"All the same," he insisted obstinately, "Othello's good,"
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

Othello = Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy

Because our world is not the same as Othello's world.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

Othello = Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy

And now expecting them to understand Othello!
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

Othello = Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy

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