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2. Othello - Wikipedia

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   And the text is heavily cut: Othello's first words are his speech to the Senators from Act 1 Scene 3. [ 254 ] [ 255 ] The film was critically panned on its 1955 release (headlines included "Mr Welles Murders Shakespeare in the Dark" and "The Boor of Venice") but was acclaimed as a classic upon its re-release in a restored version in 1992.

3. Otello - Wikipedia

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   Otello (Italian pronunciation: [oˈtɛllo]) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare 's play Othello. It was Verdi's penultimate opera, first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on 5 February 1887. The composer was reluctant to write anything new after the success of Aida in ...

4. Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) - Wikipedia

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   The second act takes place on the island of Cyprus, within the world of Othello. During the scene where Othello resolves to kill his wife, Constance intervenes and reveals that Iago is tricking Othello. Othello binds Iago and expresses his gratitude to Constance. Desdemona arrives and asks whether Constance may stay with them.

5. Iago's manipulativeness and character - Wikipedia

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   Iago is a major character in William Shakespeare 's 1603 play Othello. His role is one of Othello 's outwardly loyal courtier and friend, who in fact hates him and schemes his downfall. He also manipulates his friends and master into doing his bidding, eventually persuading Othello to believe that his wife, Desdemona, has been having an affair ...

6. Desdemona - Wikipedia

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   Desdemona (/ ˌdɛzdəˈmoʊnə /) is a character in William Shakespeare 's play Othello (c. 1601–1604). Shakespeare's Desdemona is a Venetian beauty who enrages and disappoints her father, a Venetian senator, when she elopes with Othello, a Moorish Venetian military prodigy. When her husband is deployed to Cyprus in the service of the ...

7. Emilia (Othello) - Wikipedia

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   There is debate among critics as to Emilia's character nature in Othello, with some deeming her a villain and some as the true hero of the play.This is because her allegiances initially seem to lie with her husband, and she displays the typical “wifely virtues of silence, obedience, and prudence" [2] of the Elizabethan period (as seen in her theft of the handkerchief in 3.1).

8. Roderigo - Wikipedia

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   Roderigo. Roderigo is a fictional character in Shakespeare 's 1604 play Othello. Roderigo, a wealthy Venetian, is manipulated into funding the antagonist Iago 's machinations in the belief that Iago will aid him in courting Othello 's wife Desdemona. In the later stages of the play, Iago recruits Roderigo in hopes of assassinating Othello's ...

9. Beast with two backs - Wikipedia

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   In English, the expression dates back to at least William Shakespeare's Othello (Act 1, Scene 1, ll. 126–127, c. 1601–1603): [1] I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs. [2]