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Emilʹia (in Shakespeare’s Othello)

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Wife of Iago. She is induced by her husband to purloin Desdemona’s handkerchief, which Iago conveys to Cassio’s chamber, and tells the Moor that Desdemoʹna had given it to the lieutenant as a love-token. At the death of Desdemona, Emilia (who, till then, never suspected the real state of the case) reveals the fact, and Iago kills her.

Emilʹia. The sweetheart of Peregrine Pickle, in Smollett’s novel.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Emilia (in Shakespeare’s Othello)
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