Modern Othello: Act 2, Scene 2

Othello published a proclamation announcing a celebration to mark the destruction of the Turks and his marriage to Desdemona. He ordered that the people of Cyprus.should eat and drink and indulge in any other celebratory pleasures that took their fancy, from the hour of five until the bell rang the hour of eleven.

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