A Moorish general, poisoned by his ensign's whispers, strangles the innocent wife he loves.
Books that mention Othello (20)
The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie & J. Berg Esenwein: “O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! --SHAKESPEARE, _Othello_.”
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: “And that story of the black man, who murdered his wife Desdemona? It is a nice dismal one that would suit you excellent just now.”
Bleak House by Charles Dickens: “Or "One stone terrace (cracked), one gondola in distance, one Venetian senator's dress complete, richly embroidered white satin costume with profile portrait of Miss Jogg the model, one Scimitar superbly mounted in gold with jewelled handle, elaborate Moorish dress (very rare), and Othello."”
The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: “…Monsieur is pleased to translate it ESPRIT-FORT) your mountain maid will some night smother her Breton-bretonnant, even as your own Shakspeare's Othello smothered Desdemona."”
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: “They were attracted to each other; a Swedish Othello and Desdemona, more useful and amiable than their prototypes.”
The Virginian by Owen Wister: “I have read that play Othello.”
The Magus by John Fowles: “'If you had seen him play Othello, you would not say that. He is a very accomplished young actor.'”
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley: “he took out his mouse-nibbled volume... and began to read Othello.”
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh: “found herself in a blaze of flood-lights on the stage in the middle of the last act of _Othello_.”
Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse: “I remember at school having to read that stuff where that chap, Othello, tells the girl what a hell of a time he'd been having among the cannibals and what not.”
Aurora Floyd by Mary Elizabeth Braddon: “If Othello had but lingered a little before smothering his wife, Mistress Emilia might have come in and sworn and protested”
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie: “His Gitanjali, Eclogues, or that play Othello that he explained was really Attallah or Attaullah except the writer couldn't spell, what sort of writer was that, anyway? (author inferred: not named in text, but Othello is unambiguously Shakespeare's)”
Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope: “He's an Othello now with a vengeance, for his occupation is gone.”
The Art of Fiction by Ayn Rand: “...of a doubting intellectual (Hamlet), or of a jealous man (Othello).”
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen: “I'm lounging on my bedroll reading Othello and Walter is on his cot reading Wordsworth.”
The Last Supper by Rachel Cusk: “'They want to know the plot of Othello, of Antony and Cleopatra.'”
Camilla by Frances Burney: “The play was Othello; and so miserably represented, that Lavinia would willingly have retired after the first scene:”
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett: “In Pierre he is great, in Othello excellent, but in Zanga beyond all imitation.”
L'Homme qui Rit by Victor Hugo: “It was very like the Globe, where they played "Othello," "King Lear," and "The Tempest."”