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In Shakespeare's 'Othello', who is the female lead?
The answer is:
Desdemona
Shakespeare's Desdemona is a Venetian beauty who enrages and disappoints her father, a Venetian senator, when she elopes with a man several years her senior and not of her race. When her husband is deployed to Cyprus in the service of the Venetian Republic, Desdemona accompanies him thither. There, her husband is manipulated into believing she is an adultress, and, in the last act, she is murdered by her estranged spouse.
The role has attracted notable actresses through the centuries and has the distinction of being the role performed by Margaret Hughes, the first actress to appear on an English public stage.