Desdemona is a Venetian beauty who enrages and disappoints her father, a Venetian senator, when she elopes with Othello, a Moorish Venetian military prodigy. When her husband is deployed to Cyprus in the service of the Republic of Venice, Desdemona accompanies him. There, her husband is manipulated by his ensign Iago into believing she is an adulteress, and, in the last act, she is murdered by her estranged spouse.

All published appearances of Desdemona from before January 1, )-(95)}} are public domain in the US.

Some notable appearances include:

* The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (1603)
* Zaïre (1732)
* Le More de Venise (1829)
* Othello The Moor of Fleet Street (1833)
* Othello Travestie (1834)
* Othello (Ethiopian Burlesque) (1870)
* Desdemonum An Ethiopian Burlesque of 1874
* Dar's de Money (Othello Burlesque) of 1880

* Oroonoko (1688)

* Othello (1920)

* Carnival (1921)
* Othello (1922)

* In the Disney animated series ''Gargoyles'', Coldfire (known as Desdemona in production material) is an android possessed by a slain gargoyle's soul. She is named after the character of the same name from Shakespeare's play.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desdemona# Wikipedia]
*[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/desdemona/4005-90415/ ComicVine]
*[https://www.comics.org/story_by_character/Othello/sort/chrono/ Grand Comic Database]
*[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Theatre/Othello TV Tropes]

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