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3.89. 392,418 ratings10,742 reviews. In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona), with elopement, and with intense mutual devotion and that ends precipitately with jealous rage and violent deaths. He sets this story in the romantic ...
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Dec 29, 1995 · Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The force of evil in "Othello" has its origin, "like the origin of everything else in the tragedy, in the character of its hero," Mark Van Doren wrote. It is Othello who is guilty. Iago is able to plant his cruel seeds of jealousy only because Othello's character is so thoroughly prepared to receive them.
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Jan 31, 2024 · Reframing ‘Othello’ as a police procedural in which Shakespeare’s Moorish general is a high-ranking officer at the Met is an inspired notion from director Ola Ince. It injects a note of ...
Jul 25, 2020 · Othello is a train wreck that the audience horrifyingly witnesses, helpless to prevent or look away. If Hamlet is a tragedy about youth, and Lear concerns old age, Othello is a family or domestic tragedy of a middle-aged man in which the fate of kingdoms and the cosmos that hangs in the balance in Hamlet and Lear contracts to the private world ...
Dec 8, 2022 · the week recommends. Othello at the National Theatre review: a ‘sensational’ production. Clint Dyer has become the first black director to stage Othello at a major British theatre. Giles ...
Sep 4, 2020 · A few others die in the line of dramaturgical duty. But the villain, Iago, lives — and the play as a whole does, too. Swift and brutal, it makes a poisonous beeline from premise to conclusion ...
