Montano

Family: Cyprus · Role: governor · First appears: Othello · Act II, Scene I

Life events

• The Turkish fleet is wrecked, ending the war.(Othello · Act II, Scene I · 📍 Cyprus)
  • With: Cassio
  • “Our wars are done. The desperate tempest hath so bang’d the Turks That their designment halts.”
• Drunken Cassio strikes Roderigo and fights Montano.(Othello · Act II, Scene III · 📍 Cyprus)
  • With: Cassio Roderigo
  • “Dost thou prate, rogue? [Striking Roderigo.] MONTANO. Nay, good lieutenant; I pray you, sir, hold your hand. CASSIO. Let me go, sir, Or I’ll knock you o’er the mazard. MONTANO. Come, come, you’re drunk. CASSIO. Drunk? [They fight.]”
• Montano is seriously injured during the brawl.(Othello · Act II, Scene III · 📍 Cyprus)
  • With: Cassio
  • “Zounds, I bleed still, I am hurt to the death.”

Othello · Act II, Scene I

• liege: Othello “For I have serv’d him, and the man commands Like a full soldier.”

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Extracted from the original text of Shakespeare's Tragedies. Made with Rho MD.