Othello
Moor of Venice
Othello is a strategy board game played on an 8×8 grid where two players place black and white discs, flipping the opponent's pieces by trapping them between your own.
Also called Reversi.
Separately, Othello is Shakespeare's tragedy about a Moorish general manipulated by Iago into murdering his wife Desdemona out of jealousy: the green-eyed monster in Othello.
Elizabethan dramatist and poet
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- VeniceLagoon city, northeastern Italy
- DesdemonaVenetian bride wrongly murdered
- MoorNorthwest African Muslim people
Iago · Emilia · Cyprus · handkerchief · soliloquy · monologue · act · scene
Resentful desire for another's advantages
- betrayalBreaking of trust
- manipulationUnderhanded control of others
- deceptionIntentional misleading of others
- raceCompetition of speed
envy · suspicion · insecurity · possessiveness · paranoia · distrust · honor · reputation
Disc-capturing board game
flip · capture · strategy · corner · edge · mobility · stability · parity
- DesdemonaVenetian bride wrongly murdered
- EmiliaFeminine name, Latin-derived
- BiancaItalian for white
- DukeHigh-ranking noble title
Moor · general · lieutenant · ensign · villain · protagonist · antagonist · tragic hero
Shakespeare
Elizabethan dramatist and poet
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- VeniceLagoon city, northeastern Italy
- DesdemonaVenetian bride wrongly murdered
Iago · Moor · Emilia · Cyprus · handkerchief · soliloquy · monologue · act · scene · Elizabethan
jealousy
Resentful desire for another's advantages
- betrayalBreaking of trust
- manipulationUnderhanded control of others
- deceptionIntentional misleading of others
race · envy · suspicion · insecurity · possessiveness · paranoia · distrust · honor · reputation · otherness
Reversi
Disc-capturing board game
white · flip · capture · strategy · corner · edge · mobility · stability · parity · squares
Iago
Duke · Moor · general · lieutenant · ensign · villain · protagonist · antagonist · tragic hero
- British ClassicsPride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist
- British TheatreWest End, Macbeth, Globe, King Lear, pantomime
- Shakespeare CharactersHamlet, Macbeth, Romeo, Juliet, Ophelia
- 1600s WorksParadise Lost, Leviathan, Don Quixote, King James Bible, Hamlet
- Classic PlaysHamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar
- Elizabethan eraShakespeare, Tudor era, Elizabethan, sonnet, sonnets