JOHNSON. exact and scrupulous regularity. occasionally related, there had been little wanting to a drama of the most

Had the scene opened in Cyprus, and the preceding incidents been necessary to produce the death of Othello. the narrative in the end, though it tells but what is known already, yet is interchanges, and regularly promoting the progression of the story; and

The scenes from the beginning to the end are busy, varied by happy

OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE.

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