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These also include Shakespeare's own earlier plays Much Ado About Nothing, in which a similar plot was used in a comedy, [20] The Merchant of Venice with its high-born, Moorish, Prince of Morocco, [21] and Titus Andronicus, in which a Moor, Aaron, was a prominent villain, and as such was a forerunner of both Othello and Iago. [22] [23]
Othello (/ ɒ ˈ θ ɛ l oʊ /, oh-THELL-oh) is the titular protagonist in Shakespeare's Othello (c. 1601–1604). The character's origin is traced to the tale "Un Capitano Moro" in Gli Hecatommithi by Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio .
Jason Allen-Paisant (born 1980) is a Jamaican poet, writer and academic. His second collection of poems, Self-Portrait as Othello, won the 2023 T. S. Eliot Prize and the 2023 Forward Prize for Best Collection.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. ... [186] [187] In some cases, for example, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, and Othello, ...
Othello Henderson (born 1972), American football player; Othello Hunter (born 1986), American-Liberian basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League; Otello Profazio (born 1934), Italian cantastorie and folk singer-songwriter; Nunzio Otello Francesco Gioacchino (Born 1792), Napoleonic Neapolitan Mameluke of Joachim Murat
Iago (/ i ˈ ɑː ɡ oʊ /) is a fictional character in Shakespeare's Othello (c. 1601–1604). Iago is the play's main antagonist, and Othello's standard-bearer.He is the husband of Emilia who is in turn the attendant of Othello's wife Desdemona.
Othello (also known as The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice) is a 1951 tragedy directed and produced by Orson Welles, who also adapted the Shakespearean play and played the title role. Recipient of the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (precursory name for the Palme d'Or [ 3 ] ) at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival , the film was ...
Salvini was born in Milan to parents who were both actors, ... Salvini's most famous role was Othello, which he played for the first time at Vicenza in June 1856.