Desdemona

Desdemona
Othello character
Desdémone by Alexandre Cabanel
Created byWilliam Shakespeare
Portrayed by
In-universe information
AffiliationEmilia, attendant and confidante
Family

Desdemona (/ˌdɛzdəˈmnə/) is a character in William Shakespeare's play Othello (c. 1601–1604). Shakespeare's Desdemona is a Venetian beauty who enrages and disappoints her father, a Venetian senator, when she elopes with Othello, a Moorish Venetian military prodigy. When her husband is deployed to Cyprus in the service of the Republic of Venice, Desdemona accompanies him. There, her husband is manipulated by his ensign Iago into believing she is an adulteress, and, in the last act, she is murdered by her estranged spouse.