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Characterisation / Othello - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Monarchs in Shakespeare's writings: King Lear - Monarch, Macbeth - Aspiring Monarch, Hamlet - Displaced Prince.
      - Othello is a descendant of a royal line of kings, and has been an impressive military commander.
- - - - At the time that Othello was first performed, the African slave trade was already established. In the 1550s Elizabethan adventurers had set out to the coast of Africa, where they raided the villages and kidnapped some of the inhabitants, bringing them back to England. Othello himself describes how he was briefly imprisoned as a slave.