The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0685 Wednesday, 21 March 2001
From: Sean Lawrence <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 20 Mar 2001 13:49:46 -0800
Subject: 12.0652 Re: Othello in Aleppo
Comment: Re: SHK 12.0652 Re: Othello in Aleppo
Don Bloom asks,
>The question
>is why he would grow furious at a Turk insulting a Venetian before his
>professional alliance with Venice.
Well, it's not like we can know, but he might have been fighting the
Turk for reasons that had nothing to do with Venice (he was a
middle-eastern Spartacus, say, or was aligned with another local ruler)
and, the enemy of my enemy being my friend, found himself aligned with a
city-state in Europe. In any case, we could still place Othello at
Aleppo in one of those strange moments referred to as "an accident of
war".
Cheers,
Se
