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Playbill for a performance of Othello
Learn about the characters of Othello as discussed by the cast and crew of a Folger Shakespeare Library production
Paul Robeson and Uta Hagen in Othello Othello, as portrayed by Laurence Fishburne (centre), with Irène Jacob (left) as Desdemona and Kenneth Branagh (right) as Iago, 1995 Andrei Popov as Iago leans in and grips Yevgeni Vesnik as Roderigo, who wears a helmet, in a dramatic moment from the 1955 Russian film Othello, directed by Sergei Yutkevich. Othello Paul Robeson enjoying camaraderie with Othello costars “Ira Frederick Aldridge as Othello,” painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, c. 1830; in the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Hear about the three language devices used in Shakespeare's Othello - words as power, words as characters, and words as a conversation with the audience
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Learn about the characters of Othello as discussed by the cast and crew of a Folger Shakespeare Library production
William Shakespeare's Othello is discussed by the cast and crew of a Folger...
Video: Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library; CC-BY-SA 4.0 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Hear about the three language devices used in Shakespeare's Othello - words as power, words as characters, and words as a conversation with the audience
The cast and crew of a Folger Shakespeare Library production of Othello...
Video: Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library; CC-BY-SA 4.0 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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Playbill for a performance of Othello
Poster advertising the staging of Othello (and other works) at the Theatre...
The Granger Collection, New York
Paul Robeson and Uta Hagen in Othello
Paul Robeson (right) as Othello and Uta Hagen as Desdemona in a Theatre Guild production...
Farm Security Administration—Office of War Information Photograph Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.(LC-USW33-054943-ZC)
Othello, as portrayed by Laurence Fishburne (centre), with Irène Jacob (left) as...
© Archive Photos
Othello (1955)
Andrey Popov (Iago, left) and Yevgeny Vesnik (Roderigo) in Sergey Yutkevich's Othello...
© Universal International Pictures; photograph from a private collection
Othello
Paul Robeson (right) in the title role of Othello, with Peggy Ashcroft as...
© Bettmann/Corbis
Paul Robeson enjoying camaraderie with Othello costars
The stars of the Broadway Theatre Guild production of Othello—from left,...
Farm Security Administration—Office of War Information Photograph Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USW33-054933-ZC )
“Ira Frederick Aldridge as Othello,” painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, c....
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution/Art Resource, NY

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Othello: Gielgud, John
Othello defends himself on the charge of marrying Desdemona, “Most potent, grave,...
Othello: Booth, Edwin
Othello recalls how he and Desdemona fell in love, “She wished she had not heard...
Othello: Willow Song
The Willow Song (traditional), sung by Desdemona in Othello, Act IV, scene...
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