desdemona

     

Desemona, as a name, may refer to:

Trivia about desdemona

  • This character became the heroine of the dramatic ballet "The Moor's Pavane"
  • Othello calls her a "lewd minx"
  • Othello believes the lies of Iago & murders this wife
  • In various versions of "Othello", she's smothered, strangled or stabbed to death
  • Brabantio, this woman's father, dies of grief over her marriage to Othello
  • "Heaven truly knows that thou are as false as hell", said Othello of this character; he later took it back
  • Gratiano is this "Othello" heroine's uncle
  • She says, "that death's unnatural that kills for loving" before Othello strangles her
  • Othello called her his "Fair Warrior"
  • This daughter of Brabantio elopes before the start of a Shakespeare play; her hubby will be the death of her--in Act V
  • She tells the Duke of Venice, "That I did love the Moor to live with him"
  • Her new job as a marriage counselor drives hubby Othello a little crazy in "The Moor the Merrier"
  • It was Othello, perhaps with a pillow, smothering her in her bedroom
  • She says of her husband, "His unkindness may defeat my life, but never taint my love" (She was right)

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