The messenger announces that Michael Cassio, ‘lieutenant to the warlike Moor, Othello / Is come on shore’. News is brought to Montano, the Governor of Cyprus, that ‘our wars are done!’ because the Turkish fleet has been badly damaged by storms. Alone, Iago tells the audience of his plans to make Othello believe Desdemona is being unfaithful to him with Cassio ‘to get his place, and to plume up my will / In double knavery’. Alone with Roderigo, Iago persuades him to follow them to Cyprus, saying Othello and Desdemona’s love will not last long. Othello asks Iago to bring his wife Emilia to Cyprus to ‘attend on’ Desdemona. Desdemona asks to go with Othello to Cyprus and Brabantio warns Othello ‘she has deceived her Father, and may thee’. Desdemona is called for and she tells the Senate she married Othello for love and her duty is now to him rather than her father. The Duke listens to Othello who explains that she fell in love with him as he told her stories about his life and that ‘she loved me for the dangers I had passed’. Brabantio tells the Duke that Othello has bewitched his daughter saying she is ‘abused, stolen from me and corrupted’. Brabantio, Othello, Cassio, Iago and Roderigo arrive at the Senate while they are talking about the war.
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