Literary Insights

Whenever I teach Bianca in Othello, I can almost hear the quiet confusion ripple through the room. She’s the character […]

When I teach Othello, many students first see Desdemona as the hero’s wife. Yet Desdemona in Othello is far more

Every year when I teach Othello, my students tend to brush past Cassio in Othello as if he’s just the

When I teach Othello, students often remember Brabantio simply as Desdemona’s father. Yet Brabantio in Othello deserves far closer attention.

Imagine waking up one morning to discover that everyone believes a lie about you. Your friends avoid you. Your colleagues

Jealousy, that infamous “green-eyed monster,” doesn’t just creep into Shakespeare’s Othello. It devours it from the inside out. Every time

When people think of Othello, they usually remember jealousy, betrayal, and murder. Yet Shakespeare builds the tragedy on something far