Othello (character) arrested, transported from Cyprus to Venice, and tortured, but refuses to admit his guilt. He is condemned to exile; Desdemona's relatives eventually put him to death. The ensign escapes any prosecution in Desdemona's death but engages in other crimes and dies after being tortured. There is no consensus over Othello's race. E. A. J. Honigmann, the editor of the Arden Shakespeare edition concluded that Othello's race is ambiguous. "Renaissance representations of the Moor were vague, varied, inconsistent, and contradictory. As critics have established, the term 'Moor' referred to dark-skinned people in general, used interchangeably with similarly ambiguous terms as 'African',
Hesledon Moor East The dominant grassland species include common bent, "Agrostis capillaris", sweet vernal-grass, "Anthoxanthum odoratum", and crested dog's-tail, "Cynosurus cristatus". In places the grassland displays a weakly developed acidic character; common bent and sheep's fescue, "Festuca ovina", are the dominant species. A short distance to the south, the smaller parcel supports a base and nutrient-rich soligenous fen-type vegetation in which the dominant species varies between purple moor-grass, "Molinia caerulea", and meadowsweet, "Filipendula ulmaria". Hesledon Moor East Hesledon Moor East is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Easington district in east County Durham, England. It is located on the southern edge