Despite being loved and totally faithful, Desdemona looks set to lose her life - because of lies. Othello: ‘Be thus when thou art dead, and I will kill thee, and love thee after. One more ...

(Actually he does kill him… and loses everything ... Bad-boy Iago starts by stirring it up with Desdemona’s Dad, implying Othello is a dodgy, old man who has stolen his daughter.