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I once heard a story of a lady who went to see Othello and found it so painful that she got up and shouted: ‘you stupid fool, can’t you see he’s having you on!’ This reaction is entirely understandable:
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Othello is the most painful tragedy to watch.
The audience is in the uncomfortable position of feeling that it’s being poisoned.
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© 1998 Richard Gill
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Gill, R. (1998). Othello. In: Mastering Shakespeare. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14551-5_21
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