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Othello Strategy The popularity of Othello can often be attributed to the complex strategies it employs. Advanced mathematics has been used to analyse the varying permutations and algorithms that result when looking into the game more deeply. The Othello playing engine used here was originally written by Roemer B. Lievaart for the 1987 International Obfuscated C Code Contest. It's a pretty good engine for only 1024 bytes of C code!

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• OTHELLO My life upon her faith! Honest Iago, My Desdemona must I leave to thee: I prithee, let thy wife attend on her: And bring them after in the best advantage. Come, Desdemona: I have but an hour Of love, of worldly matters and direction, To spend with thee: we must obey the time. Exeunt OTHELLO and DESDEMONA. RODERIGO Iago,-IAGO.
• OTHELLO It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul,-Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!-It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.

Act 1, Scene 1

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Scene Index:

Links to scenes, with a brief summary of each scene.

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Notable Quotes:

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Scene Summaries:

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Major Characters:

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Minor Characters:

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Themes and Motifs:

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Cinthio's Tale:

The Source of Shakespeare's Othello.

A Note on 'The Motive-Hunting of Motiveless Malignity':

Coleridge's famous comment explained.

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