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• Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello (1604) lends Nabokov’s story its title and is widely regarded as one of the playwright’s greatest works. Like ‘‘That in Aleppo Once . . . ,’’ Othello concerns the effects of jealousy on a married man’s mind.
• The Winter’s Tale (1610), one of Shakespeare’s late romances, concerns Leontes, a king whose jealousy of his innocent wife almost destroys her and her daughter. Unlike Othello, however, Leontes is saved from his own passions before they destroy himself and his family.
• Nabokov’s most famous...
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