Trailer 2 -The Shakespeare Series Othello: The Moor of Venice
Gregory Mikell continues with his weekly performance of a selection of classical material from Shakespeare in The Shakespeare Series with two speeches from The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice.
The play opens with Roderigo, a rich and dissolute gentleman, complaining to Iago, a high-ranking soldier, that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona, the daughter of a Senator named Bribantio, and Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army. Othello, the Moor: A general in the Venetian military.