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              Othello is, at its core, a story that has a lot to do with race.  The racial perceptions of this play in some ways appear to be quite mixed; on the one hand, Othello’s very existence as a complex Shakespearean hero presents a different view of the black man than was popular in those times, but on the other hand Othello’s tragic end returns him to the very violence of racial stereotypes.  In this exhibit, I present various depictions of race and skin color that were available at the time Shakespeare wrote Othello.  The exhibit is comprised of two parts: one examining depictions of skin color in general, and one examining how climate was believed to affect race.