Othello Context
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- Othello Context
- Courtly Love
- Allowed knights and ladies to to show their admiration outside of marriage
- A courtier devotes himself to a noble women who is usually married
- Medieval and Rennaisance
- Queen Elizabeth expected the courtly love tradition. She expected 'flattery, gifts and words of love'
- Set rules
- 'Jealousy and therefore love are increased when one suspects his beloved'
- 'He who is jealous cannot love'
- Othello
- 'Jealousy and therefore love are increased when one suspects his beloved'
- Othello
- A man who is vexed by too much passion usually does not love
- The Moor
- 'Moor' is derived from the name of Mauritania but was used to refer to North Africans, West Africans.
- Macchiavelli
- Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian philosopher and poet
- The ends justifies the means
- Obsessed with goals
- Considered an almost satanic figure in Elizabethan England
- Iago
- (an) a term used to describe someone whose sole purpose is to manipulate and corrupt others for their own gain
- "Puppet Master"
- 16th Century Venice
- Italian Rennaisance
- The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 signelled dthe start of the decline of Venice
- Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1570
- Symbolic of law and civilization
- Renowned for courtesans (prostitutes)
- Courtly Love
- Stereotypes
- 'Villains' or 'devils'
- Prone to jealousy
- Sexually overactive
- Moral corruption and sin
- The Moor
- 'Moor' is derived from the name of Mauritania but was used to refer to North Africans, West Africans.
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