Today we started reading Othello. The play starts out in Venice, Italy. We are reading the modern text in No Fear, but I will point out some of the original text on the left hand side occasionally.

We read 1.1 and 1.2. A few words we have talked about:

Some words/concepts that we talked about while reading:

ensign

instigate

consummated

elope

natural/unnatural relationships

monologue

soliloquy