Note to Othello, 1.1.31: "debitor and creditor — this counter-caster"


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Act 1, Scene 1, line 31.
"Debitor and creditor" was the name of an accounting system of Shakespeare's time. A "counter-caster" is a person who calculates accounts by placing tokens on a special counting table, a "counter."

woodcut of a counting table