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  1. A tragedy by William Shakespeare, first
  2. performed 1604-05. Othello, a Moorish
  3. commander in the Venetian army, is persuaded
  4. by Iago that his wife Desdemona is having an
  5. affair with his friend Cassio. Othello
  6. murders Desdemona; on discovering her
  7. innocence, he kills himself.
  8.