The work revolves around four central characters: Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army ; his wife, Desdemona ; his lieutenant, Cassio ; and his trusted ensign, Iago.

Iago hates Othello for promoting a younger man named Michael Cassio above him, and tells Roderigo that he plans to use Othello for his own advantage.

Iago denounces Cassio as a scholarly tactician with no real battle experience ; in contrast, Iago is a battle-tested soldier.

By order of the Duke, Othello leaves Venice to command the Venetian armies against invading Turks on the island of Cyprus, accompanied by his new wife, his new lieutenant Cassio, his ensign Iago, and Emilia as Desdemona's attendant.

Iago schemes to use Cassio to ruin Othello and takes the opportunity of Othello's absence at the celebration to persuade Roderigo to engage Cassio in a fight.

Cassio is distraught, but Iago persuades him to importune Desdemona to act as an intermediary between himself and Othello, and persuade her husband to reinstate him.

Iago now persuades Othello to be suspicious of Cassio and Desdemona.

Iago plants it in Cassio's lodgings as evidence of Cassio and Desdemona's affair.

Othello sees this, and Iago convinces him that Cassio received the handkerchief from Desdemona.

Enraged and hurt, Othello resolves to kill his wife and asks Iago to kill Cassio as a duty to their intimacy.

Roderigo complains that he has received nothing for his efforts and threatens to abandon his pursuit of Desdemona, but Iago convinces him to kill Cassio instead, because Cassio has just been appointed governor of Cyprus, and — Iago argues — if Cassio lives to take office, Othello and Desdemona will leave Cyprus, thwarting Roderigo's plans to win Desdemona.

Passers-by arrive to help ; Iago joins them, pretending to help Cassio.

When Cassio identifies Roderigo as one of his attackers, Iago secretly stabs Roderigo to stop him from confessing.

The Governor arrives, with Iago, Cassio, and others, and Emilia begins to explain the situation.

At the end, it can be assumed, Iago is taken off to be tortured, and Cassio becomes governor of Cyprus.

Desdemona is the only named character in Cinthio's tale, with his few other characters identified only as " the Moor " ( Othello ), " the squadron leader " ( Cassio ), " the ensign " ( Iago ), and " the ensign's wife " ( Emilia ).

For his part, Iago refuses to explain his motives, vowing to remain silent from that moment on.

Finally, production began on the opera, which Verdi initially referred to as Iago.

He also played some Shakespearean roles which he never essayed on stage, such as Iago in a 1932 broadcast of Othello opposite Henry Ainley as the Moor, Buckingham ( 1954 ) and Cranmer ( 1977 ) in Henry VIII, and Friar Laurence in Romeo & Juliet for the first time when he was eighty-nine.

In 1951 Finch played Iago on stage opposite Orson Welles in Othello.

When Gruffudd first appeared on the scene in Wales the Welsh annals several times refer to him as " grandson of Iago " rather than the more usual " son of Cynan ", indicating that his father was little known in Wales.

His last appearance on the stage was at Covent Garden, on 25 March 1833, when he played Othello to the Iago of his son, Charles Kean, who was also an accomplished actor.

He has also worked at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1988 as Assistant director on a number of productions including Major Barbara and directed in ' The Tent ', the second venue and later at the Royal National Theatre, directing Edward Bond's The Sea, Jim Cartwright's The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party, and Othello with Simon Russell Beale as Iago.

After Iago engineers a drunken brawl to ensure Cassio ’ s demotion ( in Act 2 ), he sets to work on his second scheme: leading Othello to believe that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio.

Iago is a Machiavellian schemer and manipulator, as he is often referred to as " honest Iago ", displaying his skill at deceiving other characters so that not only do they not suspect him, but they count on him as the person most likely to be truthful.

This reading would seem to suggest that Iago, much like Don John in Much Ado About Nothing or Aaron in Titus Andronicus, wreaks havoc on the other characters ' lives for no ulterior purpose.

The Spanish settlement on Jamaica island was in 1509, named then Isla de Santiago ( by Sant Iago Apostol ), in Sevilla la Nueva.

The Spanish Sparrow is not common on most of the Cape Verde islands, due to the presence of the endemic Iago Sparrow, and the House Sparrow on São Vicente.

After the production of Tennyson's The Cup and revivals of Othello ( in which Irving played Iago to Edwin Booth's title character ) and Romeo and Juliet, there began a period at the Lyceum which had a potent effect on the English stage.

In the 1980s, he appeared on Broadway in two Shakespearean tragedies, Othello, playing Iago to James Earl Jones ' Moor, and the title role in Macbeth with Glenda Jackson playing his lady.

The film centers on Jafar, the villain from the original film, trying to gain his revenge against Aladdin and his companions, Princess Jasmine, Genie, Abu, Carpet, the Sultan, and Iago ( now turned against Jafar ), and become the ruler of Agrabah.

Trying to draw on the good mood, Aladdin attempts to persuade the Sultan to forgive Iago, but Iago inadvertently ruins the dinner when Rajah chases him into the room.

Cassim decides to carry on his original scheme with Iago as his new henchman.

Julie and Dave ( the former Maxx ) having vanished, the action focuses on Sara ( as she now spells her name ) and Iago, a giant, murderous banana slug from her Outback.

Iago has a list of people to kill, and it turns out that Julie and Sara are both on it.

The play opens with Roderigo, a rich and dissolute gentleman, complaining to Iago, a high-ranking soldier, that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona, the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio, and Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army.

By emphasizing Roderigo's failed bid for Desdemona, and his own dissatisfaction with serving under Othello, Iago convinces Roderigo to wake Brabantio, Desdemona's father, and tell him about his daughter's elopement.

After he has planted the handkerchief, Iago tells Othello to stand apart and watch Cassio's reactions while Iago questions him about the handkerchief.

Iago plots to manipulate Othello into demoting Cassio, and thereafter to bring about the downfall of Othello himself.

Iago then leads Othello to believe that a bawdy conversation about Cassio's mistress, Bianca, is in fact about Desdemona.

His Iago is unusual in that Mac Liammóir was about fifty ( and looked older ) when he played the role, while the play gives Iago's age as 28.

Through the course of the play, Iago also meets Psychostrategist Carnell ( Scott Fredericks, reprising his role from Blake's 7 ) and makes it clear that he knows what a psychostrategist is and about the Federation ; with Carnell remarking that he must be the only other person on the planet with this information.

The play takes the form of a dialogue between Kaston Iago and Justina, who is interviewing him about his background on the orders of Uvanov.

In the first direct-to-video sequel, The Return of Jafar ( 1994 ), Jasmine later begins to question her choice in Aladdin, wondering if he was trustworthy enough after he defends Iago, Jafar's former pet parrot who had terrorized her father, but she quickly gets over these questions with Iago's help ( who convinces her she cares about Aladdin by calling her bluff ).

Very little is known about the reign of Iago.