This anthology documents a decade of some of the UK's most exciting queer performance, through a combination of retrospective scripts, development material and visual documentation.
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice - William Shakespeare - Othello (full title: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, probably in 1603, set in the contemporary Ottoman-Venetian War (1570-1573) fought for the control of the Island of Cyprus, since 1489 a possession of the Venetian Republic.
This play, written by its author in 1915, deals with a rich historical era in the history of the city of Mansoura, the capital of Dakahlia Governorate, which was established by King Al-Kamil Muhammad in the year 1219 in the era of the Ayyubid Empire, when the Crusaders occupied Damietta at the time of the Fifth Crusade against Egypt.
One morning, as I was writing, I suddenly understood that as a species, through incredible stubbornness, we were able to write love into our genetic makeup, and that this is enough to redeem us all.
