Othello vs Otello: filosofia, retorica, poesia.
This paper has three main interconnected foci: (a) the relationship between phi-losophy and fiction; (b) the distinction between Othello (the work) and Othello (the character); (c) the difference between poetry and rhetoric (or a certain ma-nipulative use of rhetoric). As for (a), it considers as inadequate any philosophical approach to the play that looks at it as an illustration of a (pre-established) philo-sophical position and/or (b) does not distinguish between illocutionary and perlo-cutionary speech acts.