These include "the Moor" (I.i.57), "the thick-lips" (I.i.66), "an old black ram" (I.i.88), and "a Barbary horse" (I.i.113). ... In the final moments of the play, Othello regains his composure and, once again, seduces both his onstage and offstage audiences with his words. ... As entertained spectators, we find ourselves on Iago's side when he is with Roderigo, but the interactions between the two also reveal a streak of cowardice in Iago - a cowardice that becomes manifest in the final scene, when Iago kills his own wife (V.ii.231–242). ...

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