Watch this lesson today to discover how Shakespeare explores one of the most powerful issues in Othello, race and identity. See the tricky connection between race and identity through the prism of the tragic hero, Othello.

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Adrian Lester (Othello) and Rory Kinnear (Iago) talk about the characters, the relationship between them, their relative position in the social and military hierarchy of the play and the motivations for their actions.