Two tragedies from two different time periods, Medea and Othello show similarities and differences in their characters, plots and settings. Euripedes' Medea written in the classical period and Shakespeare's Othello written in the romantic era, the two tragedies show a different sense of what tragedies are. First of all, the most obvious difference between these two plays is the way Medea displays unities (time, place, and action) while Othello has none. In the first scene, as soon as the characters exit, we clearly see that in Medea the place is fixed and there would be no movement. The staging is beautiful and clear and throughout the story the characters are in the same place and there is a unity between time, place and action; this is to say that the characters are in the same place throughout the entire work. While in Othello it's more like Hollywood, it's in the real world and not set in a theater-like location. Therefore the work appears more realistic to contemporary audiences, however there is a loss of unity between the three categories: time, place and action. However, since contemporary audiences are used to these settings, they can easily grasp the complexity of the story without getting too confused. One small difference that the audience can see in the show is the fact that violence is shown in one show while violence is not shown in the other. In Medea, because in those days people believed in reasoning instead of emotions, they didn't focus too much on the violent part of the play. Instead, they kept the game nice and clean so as to maintain a nice, simple feel to the overall gameplay. So, for example, in Medea, when Medea had to kill her children, this was done when the doors were closed, and we found out that she did it when Jason enters the room and storms out in a rage blaming Medea for the death of their children. Likewise, the audience only hears about Creosa's burning through the nurse when she enters the scene to tell Medea about the devastation she saw. This way, no violence is shown and we only hear about death and pain. In contrast, Othello shows no restriction in violence, when Iago stabs Roderigo, the audience can clearly see that the knife enters the body and soon we see blood and the situation becomes really complicated..