Too involved when securing punishing location for play (7)
I believe the answer is:
othello
'for play' is the definition.
(play by William Shakespeare)
'too involved when securing punishing location' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'location' could be 'hell' (Hell is an example) and 'hell' is present in the answer.
an anagram of 'too' is 'oto' which is within the remaining letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for othello that I've seen before include "Shakespeare's tragic Moor who killed his wife" , "Dramatic Moor" , "Dramatic work" , "Shakespeare tragedy" , "game with counters" .)