onceWhere a malignant and a turbaned TurkBeat a Venetian and traduced the state,I took by th'throat the circumcised dogAnd smote him thus.'(He kills himself with a death befitting a barbarian)Iago wants revenge on Othello for sleeping with his wife:'For that I do suspect the lusty MoorHath leaped into my seat'In both books, there is a sense that issues of race overshadow and dominate the relations