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Roderigo is a fictional character in Shakespeare's Othello (c.1601-1604), where he serves as the secondary antagonist of the play. He is a dissolute Venetian lusting after Othello's wife Desdemona. Roderigo has opened his purse to Iago in the mistaken belief that Iago is using his money to pave the way to Desdemona's bed. When the assassination of Michael Cassio runs amiss, Iago fatally wounds Roderigo.
Shakespeare's source for Othello was the tale "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio, and, while Shakespeare closely followed his source in composing Othello, Roderigo has no counterpart in Cinthio. The character is completely Shakespeare's invention.
Usage examples of "roderigo".
You will fire in support of your uncle Roderigo until the enemy is within your minimum range.
They only had two maps with a grid and Roderigo didn't have one of those.
Even now, the last group to be engaged passed through the next and, so Roderigo thought, the last decent ambush position before the bridge to home.
All Roderigo had been saying had seemed small talk, had seemed like something far away from me, for I had no California land, nor did I know anybody who had any.
Flattening against the door with my fist full of gun, I glanced over to see Roderigo holding a smoking pistol.
This was the day Roderigo Yrarier, faithful Old Catholic and staunch son of the Church, had done the unthinkable.
He had remained to guide her through the summer domestic quarters while her husband, Roderigo Yrarier, toured the winter quarters and the offices of the new embassy with Eric bon Haunser, a younger but no less dutiful member of the Grassian aristocracy.
If Roderigo hadn’t thought his wife remote, he wouldn’t have needed Eugenie Le Fevre.
She would tell him the story over supper, how this Roderigo and this Lady Westriding had almost been true lovers, almost a natural pair, but this something else had happened, and now there was this pink lady for the Lord’s bed while the cool blond woman was left all alone.
This woman married to Roderigo Yrarier, this woman, his wife, mother of his children, this woman .
When they returned last night, from the Hunt, Roderigo demanded that they help him search for your sister.
After pacing to and fro in much agitation, he struck his forehead, and burst out in a wild strain, singing of his hatred to Roderigo, his love for Zara, and his pleasing resolution to kill the one and win the other.
Though decidedly shaken by the fall from the tower upon him, Roderigo defied the old gentleman and refused to stir.
He wishes her to go into a convent, but she won’t hear of it, and after a touching appeal, is about to faint when Roderigo dashes in and demands her hand.
The SG was followed by Ambassador Juan Roderigo of Argentina, currently heading COPUOS, the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.