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Othello. "Othello and Desdemona in Venice" by Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856) Othello ( / ɒˈθɛloʊ /; full title: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, around 1603. The story revolves around two characters, Othello and Iago . Othello is a Moorish military commander who was serving as a ...
Othello. (1995 film) Othello is a 1995 drama film based on William Shakespeare 's tragedy of the same name. It was directed by Oliver Parker and stars Laurence Fishburne as Othello, Irène Jacob as Desdemona, and Kenneth Branagh as Iago. This is the first cinematic reproduction of the play released by a major studio that casts an African ...
Religion. Catholic; formerly Islam. Origin. Africa or Arabia. Othello ( / ɒˈθɛloʊ /, oh-THELL-oh) is a character 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. There, he is simply referred to as the Moor.
Brabantio (sometimes called Brabanzio) is a character in William Shakespeare 's Othello (c. 1601–1604). He is a Venetian senator and the father of Desdemona . Brabantio makes his first appearance in 1.1 when Iago and Roderigo rouse him with the news that Desdemona has eloped. In 1.2, Brabantio is led to the Sagittary, where the newlyweds are ...
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 ...
Original release. Network. ITV. Release. 23 December 2001. ( 2001-12-23) Othello is a 2001 British television film starring Eamonn Walker, Christopher Eccleston and Keeley Hawes. It is an adaptation in modern English of William Shakespeare 's play Othello. It was scripted by Andrew Davies and directed by Geoffrey Sax .
Iago ( / iˈɑːɡoʊ /) 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. Iago hates Othello and devises a plan to destroy him by making him believe that Desdemona is ...
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).