Othello Hugh Quarshie

A Moorish general of exceptional military prowess and dignity commands the Venetian forces against the Ottoman threat. Manipulated by a trusted ensign consumed by racial resentment and professional jealousy, he becomes convinced of his wife's infidelity through circumstantial evidence and poisonous insinuation. As doubt metastasizes into certainty, the general descends into jealous rage, his noble bearing corroded by suspicion. The ensign's scheme unravels only after irreversible tragedy strikes, revealing the general's fundamental decency and the terrible cost of prejudice, manipulation, and the human capacity for self-deception. The play examines power, race, desire, and the fragility of reputation in a society quick to believe the worst.