Just a hunch, kids, (Don't you hate when people call other people "kids" just to give themselves a seeming air of superiority and confidence? Good point, their own insecurities may very well be at work here. You're so smart! It's always a pleasure having such stimulating conversations with you, kiddo.) but this play is a tragedy if I ever smelled one. Shakespeare really gets the audience ready for some bloodshed after four whole acts of blah, blah, blah, blah, blaaaaaahh. And boy, does he deliver with four deaths and a decapitation! Yay gore! To give this play it's tragic nature, Othello had to die sometime, though a suicide was kind of lackluster after all the murders; however, his departing speech did somewhat redeem his character. As per tradition at the Globe, a flag of a certain colour (colour because I feel British and Shakespearean) would be raised before a play was performed so the audience knew if it was a tragedy, comedy, or history, but if the audience hadn't known this, they probably could have figured it out by all the ominous things happening, or if they didn't, then they would either enjoy the shock factor of dying people more or they could be weirded out a bit. Eh, this is an odd question in the first place. Mazeltov.
Iago, in package form.
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