Shakespeare's Strategic Opacity

Othello is a really interesting linchpin in both these this domestic story and this more military one. It's hard to know whether the conflict between Venice and the Turk is the background for a domestic tragedy which is really about a marriage that breaks down or is the marriage a crucible for a broader discussion about the savage incompatibility of Christian and Muslim in the place imagination so which is foreground and which is background. We might just look at one more aspect of the source story to try and focus on Shakespeare's particular telling of this story and that's the role of Iago. He offers only an obstinate silence when Othello asks him demand that Demi Devil why he hath thus