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Sorry to be pedantic, but Othello was a Moor, from North Africa -- what we today would probably think of as an "Arab".The theme of the play is envy and jealousy, rather than racism. Othello is an outsider, and making him a different race from the Venetians is a straightforward and easily understood way of indicating the fact.
Posted by Thersites on April 03, 1997 at 02:47:18
In Reply to "Regarding Othello, does anyone think Shakespeare was a racist? Why or why not?" posted by Rebecca McLean on March 24, 1997 at 15:31:07
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