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JiffyNotes: Othello: Summary: Historical Context What is a "Moor"? This would seem to be an easy question to answer: a Muslim of North African ancestry. But the question has proved to be a contested and often divisive one among readers of Othello. The question turns on whether Shakespeare intended to work with the somewhat confused Elizabethan distinction between Moors and other Africans. One earlier critic wrote: "the descendents of the proud Arabs, who had borne sovereign sway in Europe, and, what is more, had filled an age of comparative darkness with the light of their poetry and their science, were confounded with the uncivilized African, the despised slave." The critic proceeds to insist that Othello is one of the former. Indeed, this seemingly factual question has often been decided by suspiciously motivated answers. As Stephen Greenblatt has pointed out, those critics who have found Othello to be a noble hero are all too often the same ones who declare that he is a pale-skinned Arab, while those who think his actions are beastly are also those who insist that he is a black African.
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