Othello written by william shakespeare6/12/2023 The events of Othello are placed one year after the invasion of Cyprus. The Ottoman Empire spent several months invading the capital of Cyprus, Nicosia, successfully. It began with the order of Sultan Selim II to invade the island, which the Republic of Venice controlled. Shakespeare situated Othello in the latest conflict, known as the War of Cyprus. Since the mid-fifteenth century and until the beginning of the seventeenth century, the religious tensions between Christian Venice and Muslim Ottoman Empire were ongoing. Othello was written around 1603, during the Elizabethan era and Shakespeare’s significant tragic period. Most of his famous plays were written at that time. William Shakespeare was the favorite of both monarchs who ruled at the time, Elizabeth I and James I. Racism, deception (contradiction between reality and appearance), jealousy, and misogyny Around the second half of the 16th-century
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