Green for Jealousy

In Shakespeare’s play ‘Othello’, the scheming Iago lets Othello believe that his junior officer Cassio has been carrying on an affair with Othello’s wife, Desdemona. Pretending to care for Cassio’s reputation, Iago refuses to provide details, yet also warns eloquently against jealousy, all to increase the poor man’s agony of doubt.

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