Consider Othello and suggest how an Elizabethan audience might have responded to it. How are these responses likely to be different from those of a modern audience?

Othello, the Moor of Venice is one of Shakespeare greatest tragedies and one of the greatest examples of his genius as a writer and a thinker. It was first published in 1622; six years after Shakespeare¡¯s death, but it is believed that it have been written in 1604. Othello, like all of Shakespeare¡¯s plays, is renowned for the manipulation of the English language.
In Othello, it is easily assumed that that major themes are jealousy, appearance and reality, but we will only reach a superficial stage if we do not explore further than this. The play presents a situation that the central character becomes jealous, but it is not fundamentally about jealously. The emotional situations provide a wider scope of human life. It is true that the play is about appearance and reality but this is true in most of the other Shakespeare¡¯s plays, therefore it does not go very far. The main concern of the play is the clear interplay of opposition and it is through then can we gain a better and ...