Iago hates Othello ( who is also known as " The Moor ") and devises a plan to destroy him by making him believe that his wife is having an affair with his lieutenant, Michael Cassio.

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.

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.

Iago is also angry because he believes, or at least gives the pretence of belief, that Othello slept with his wife Emilia.

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.

Iago sneaks away to find Othello and warns him that Brabantio is coming for him.

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.

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 goads Cassio on to talk about his affair with Bianca, but speaks her name so quietly that Othello believes the two other men are talking about Desdemona when Cassio is really speaking of Bianca.

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.

When Othello mentions the handkerchief as proof, Emilia realizes what Iago has done.

Othello, realizing Desdemona's innocence, attacks Iago but does not kill him, saying that he would rather have Iago live the rest of his life in pain.

Lodovico, a Venetian nobleman, apprehends both Iago and Othello, but Othello commits suicide with a sword before they can take him into custody.

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 ).

In 1886 he played Iago in Othello and Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal with F. R. Benson's company at Bournemouth.

He was renowned for his affinity with the works of Verdi, notably his breakthrough role of Ford in Falstaff, Simon Boccanegra in Simon Boccanegra and Iago in Otello.

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.

Pinchwife was played by the elderly Michael Mohun, who was best known for playing menacing villains, such as Volpone and Iago.

Iago is a soldier who has fought beside Othello for several years, and has become his trusted advisor.

At the beginning of the play, Iago claims to have been unfairly passed over for promotion to the rank of Othello's lieutenant in favour of Michael Cassio.

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.

In the exposition in Act 1, scene 1, Iago himself states that his prime motivation is bitterness at having been passed for promotion to the top post.

Léone Teyssandier writes that a possible motive for Iago's actions is envy towards Desdemona, Cassio and Othello ; Iago sees them as more noble, generous and, in the case of Cassio, more handsome than he is.

Some critics thought Kenneth Branagh portrayed Iago as a homosexual, thus giving a possible motive of sexual desire for Othello, jealousy of Desdemona, and rage at the impossibility of his love for Othello being requited.

Nicole Galland's novel I, Iago, published in April 2012, speculates an elaborate backstory in which Iago invents intricate moral justifications for his ambition and vengeance.

Through the mouths of the dark characters of Hamlet, Timon, Lear, and Iago, he craftily says, or sometimes insinuates the things, which we feel to be so terrifically true, that it were all but madness for any good man, in his own proper character, to utter, or even hint of them.

This may have been because of Welles ' intended interpretation-he wanted Iago played as an older " impotent " consumed by envy for the younger Othello.

Bianca has brought her luggage, her slippers, her pyjamas, her entourage and a parrot for the Captain called " Iago ".

Jafar blasts him, leaving him for dead, but Iago manages to recover and uses his last ounce of strength to kick the lamp into the magma.

Iago is given the task of finding the right master for Jafar to manipulate.

As in the film, Iago escapes from Jafar and does his best to make amends with Aladdin and Jasmine, as well as with Sora, Donald and Goofy, although Jafar coerces him into aiding him in his revenge, almost damaging Iago's friendship with Aladdin and Sora, but he redeems himself after taking a blow for Aladdin which almost claims his life.

In it, Poirot reveals that he wore a false moustache as well as a wig and explains that X was Norton, a man who had perfected the technique of which Iago in Othello ( like a character in Ervine's play ) is master: applying just such psychological pressure as is needed to provoke someone to commit murder, where normally they would let the other live and dismiss their desires as simply the heat of the moment, without anyone ever truly realising what he is doing.

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

As a result, many of the areas in the Coquihalla Region are named after characters in Shakespearean literature, such as Iago, Romeo, Juliet, Lear, Jessica, Shylock and Portia.

The Spaniards decided it was a miraculous appearance of Santo Iago ( Saint James the Greater had already been seen in the Reconquista battle of Clavijo ) and, in thanksgiving, named the new city Santiago de la Nueva Extremadura.

It focuses on the arrival of a mysterious figure called Kaston Iago ( named for the manipulative character from Shakespeare's Othello and the noted Shakespeare editor David Kastan and played by Paul Darrow ) and his insinuation into the confidence of Chairholder Uvanov ( played by Russell Hunter, reprising his role from The Robots of Death ).