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The clown
Othello (The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice)'''Othello is a tragedy by William ShakespeareWilliam_Shakespeare around 1603. However, Shakespeare has been using characters such as Clowns, fools or jesters prior to Othello. Shakespeare's clowns offers a different perspective and an air of wisdom through balance and humor. They offer a light of fresh air in dark tragedies in Shakespeare's work. The fool we see in Othello would be labelled as the professional fool as these fools/clowns often were companions or apart of aristocratic or kingship entourages.

The clown in Othello
The clown in Othello appears twice, in the first and last scenes of act three and speaks of only fourteen lines. However, the clown is placed in an structural Fulcrum point a moment of Iago's plot coming into fruition. In Act three scene one, the clown is ordered down by Othello to quiet musicians that Claudio chant him.