FRONTISPIECE JOHN FLETCHER. From a Print by WILLIAM MARSHALL prefixed to the First Folio edition of Beaumont and Fletcher's Comedies and Tragedies (1647). PERSONS REPRESENTED DUKE OF VENICE. BRABANTIO: A SENATOR. OTHER SENATORS. GRATIANO: BROTHER TO BRABANTIO. LODOVICO: KINSMAN TO BRABANTIO. OTHELLO: A NOBLE MOOR IN THE SERVICE OF THE VENETIAN STATE. CASSIO: HIS LIEUTENANT. IAGO: HIS ANCIENT. RODERIGO: A VENETIAN GENTLEMAN. MONTANO OTHELLO'S PREDECESSOR IN THE GOVERN MENT OF CYPRUS. CLOWN: SERVANT TO OTHELLO. DESDEMONA: DAUGHTER TO BRABANTIO AND WIFE TO OTHELLO. EMILIA: WIFE TO IAGO. BIANCA: MISTRESS TO CASSIO. SAILOR, MESSENGER, HERALD, OFFICERS, GENTLEMEN, MUSICIANS, ATTENDANTS. SCENE-Venice; a Seaport in Cyprus. |