'some producers have interpreted othello as a play about race relations. Does your reading of this play support this view.'

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Shakespeare's play Othello presents the theme of race relations which producers have interpreted as a primary theme. However this is only one of the diverse themes in Othello that makes the play so original. The characters personalities are portrayed through the comparison of their individual tolerances of different races, for example, it is known that blacks from this time would have been treated poorly, and not respected, this shown as Iago makes reference to Othello …

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…statement of race relations is the fact that even though Iago played tricks on Othello in the end it was Othello whose mistrust and bad judgement lead him to kill his own wife. In conclusion, it was not just Othello or his race that drove the results of this sad but strong play but the actions of a man whose jealousy and heart full of hatred condemned who ever fell in front of his path.