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Jealousy destroys the marriage between an older black man and a younger white woman in 1500s Venice.

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Act II

Othello
How comes it, Michael, you are thus forgot?
Cassio
I pray you, pardon me; I cannot speak.
Othello
Worthy Montano, you were wont be civil;
The gravity and stillness of your youth
The world hath noted, and your name is great
In mouths of wisest censure: what’s the matter,
That you unlace your reputation thus
And spend your rich opinion for the name
Of a night-brawler? give me answer to it.
Montano
Worthy Othello, I am hurt to danger:
Your officer, Iago, can inform you⁠—
While I spare speech, which something now
offends me⁠—
Of all that I do know: nor know I aught
By me that’s said or done amiss this night;
Unless self-charity be sometimes a vice,
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