William Shakespeare, undoubtedly the most famous literary figure of all time, wrote many plays in his lifetime including four major tragedies - Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Othello. ... The soldier on guard duty obviously still had social and racial prejudices against Othello the character, indicated by his assertion that a "Negro- must not be allowed to murder a white woman, so atrocious he thought the act to be that he shot the actor. ... - [1.1.162] within the first act, rather than his name Othello. ...

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