William Shakespeare was and is considered a poetic genius. He produced 37 plays and 54 sonnets. "Indebted to Petrarch, Shakespeare nevertheless devised most of his own sonnets in a form that would come to be called 'the English Sonnet': quatrains (four-lined stanzas) with alternate rhymes, followed in a concluding couplet." Shakespeare is responsible for the most significant dramatic literature. "Indeed, secular drama was Renaissance and England's, most original contribution to the humanistic tradition." (Fiero 3: 98 & 100)
Shakespeare's tragedy in Othello is one of envy and betrayal. The major Tragedy is how Othello and Desdemona's love is denied because of lies and betrayal. The lies caused Othello to kill his one true love and remove her from himself, so that no one else shall have her but him. He also takes his own life after he realizes that why he killed her is a lie. Othello's death showed us that
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