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Othello

Othello, 1995

Laurence Fishburne as Othello

Italy, 1995

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Irène Jacob as Desdemona

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By: Raquel Portero & Milena Eiras

Trailer of a film

Kenneth Branagh as Iago

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello

• http://www.filmaffinity.com/es/film248478.html

• http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/

• http://shakespeare.mit.edu/

Othello's remake films along the years

Is there any film adaptation about the play?

A Double Life (US, 1947)

What does Othello talks about?

All Night Long (UK, 1962)

Kaliyattam (India, 1997)

Catch My Soul (US, 1974)

In the USA, 1952

Omkara (India, 2006)

Iago (Italy, 2009)

In Russia, 1956

Othello treats about varied and enduring themes like racism, love, jealousy, betrayal, revenge and repentance, Othello is still often performed in professional and community theatres aslike, and has been the source for numerous operatic, film, and literary adaptations.

In England, 1965

Hrid Majharey (India, 2014)

In Italy & Netherlands, 1986

In Italy, 1995

In England, 2001

Plot

Othello’s ensign, Iago, harbors a secret jealousy and resentment towards the Moor, partly because another soldier, lieutenant Cassio, has been promoted ahead of him, and also because he suspects that Othello has had an affair with his wife. Intent on revenge, Iago hatches a devious plan to plant suspicions in Othello’s mind that Desdemona has been unfaithful to him with Cassio. He orchestrates a street fight, for which Cassio is wrongly blamed, and is then dismissed from his post by Othello. Desdemona takes up Cassio’s case with her husband, which only further inflames his suspicions that the pair are lovers.

In the meantime, Iago manages to procure a treasured handkerchief from Desdemona that was given to her by Othello. He plants it on Cassio so that Othello sees it, then concludes that it is proof of their affair. Maddened by jealousy, he orders Iago to murder Cassio, and then he strangles Desdemona. Immediately afterward her innocence is revealed, and Iago’s treachery exposed. In a fit of grief and remorse Othello kills himself. Iago is taken into custody by the Venetian authorities.

Characters

Main characters

Do you know the famous Shakespeare play, Othello?

• Othello – General in the Venetian military
• Desdemona – Othello's wife; daughter of Brabantio
• Iago – Othello's trusted, but jealous and traitorous ensign
• Michael Cassio – Othello's loyal and most beloved
• Bianca – Cassio's lover
• Emilia – Iago's wife and Desdemona's maidservant
• Brabantio – Venetian senator and Desdemona's father
• Roderigo – dissolute Venetian, in love with Desdemona

Other characters

• Doge of Venice
• Gratiano – Brabantio's brother
• Lodovico – Brabantio's kinsman and Desdemona's cousin
• Montano – Othello's Venetian predecessor in the government of Cyprus
• Clown – servant
• Senators
• Sailor
• Officers, Gentlemen, Messenger, Herald, Attendants, Musicians, etc.

Othello (The Othello's Tragedy, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603.

The first performance, of what we have news, was held on November 1st 1604, at Whitehall Palace in London.