Immediately afterwards her innocence is revealed, and Iago’s treachery exposed. Maddened by jealousy, he orders Iago to murder Cassio, and then he strangles Desdemona. He plants it on Cassio so that Othello sees it, then concludes that it is proof of their affair. In the meantime, Iago manages to procure a treasured handkerchief from Desdemona that was given to her by Othello. Desdemona takes up Cassio’s case with her husband, which only further inflames his suspicions that the pair are lovers. He orchestrates a street fight, for which Cassio is wrongly blamed, and is then dismissed from his post by Othello. Intent on revenge, Iago hatches a devious plan to plant suspicions in Othello’s mind that Desdemona has been unfaithful to him with Cassio. Othello’s ensign, Iago, harbours a secret jealousy and resentment towards the Moor, partly because another soldier, lieutenant Cassio, has been promoted ahead of him, and also because he suspects that Othello has had an affair with his wife. When he finds out, he is outraged, and promptly disowns her. Othello the Moor, a noble black general in the Venetian army, has secretly married a beautiful white woman called Desdemona, the daughter of a prominent senator, Brabantio. The story of William Shakespeare's Othello is set in 16th-century Venice and Cyprus.
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