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Iago was just so evil - more so because he made himself appear Othello's friend, then betrayed him.
Angels' Blood Countdown: Deidre Knight - Red Fire Nalini Singh 2009
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But the authors note that Harvey made his discovery essentially at the same time that Shakespeare was composing verses depicting the heart as the site of our most secret feelings and thoughts — virtuous in King Lear's Cordelia whose very name can mean pure of heart and villainous in Othello's Iago.
Matters Of the Heart Paul McHugh 2011
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Ms. Morrison's version goes off the tracks when she tries to explain Desdemona's and Othello's marriage, and its tragic end.
So It Wasn't Jealousy After All? David Littlejohn 2011
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Iago was just so evil - more so because he made himself appear Othello's friend, then betrayed him.
Archive 2009-02-01 Nalini Singh 2009
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Hasan, a baby-faced killer with cherubic cheeks, resembled Othello's Iago in many respects.
Robert David Jaffee: Will Fort Hood's Iago Speak? Robert David Jaffee 2010
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You see the growing guilt on Gilbreath's face when she realises that, through the stolen handkerchief, she has hardened Othello's suspicions about his wife and it seems fitting at the end that the dead Emilia should take her place on the bed alongside Lily James's spirited Desdemona.
Othello – review 2011
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Nowadays, black actors have mostly re-appropriated the role, and the white Othello's that are occasionally cast have thankfully abandoned their blackface masks.
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But I was struck by the coincidence. elmyra's take is that she doesn't think this is a play about racism, and while I think it's fair to say that the main theme of the play is psychological - Iago's jealousy of Othello's status, Othello's manufactured jealousy of the fictional affair between Cassio and Desdemona - Iago is clearly a racist, and that is clearly part of what makes him evil.
Winters Tale follow-up elmyra 2009
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But, as the evening progresses the performance loses focus and, in the terrifying scene of Othello's epileptic fit, textual accuracy.
Othello – review 2011
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Clarke Peters plays the successful general, an outsider whose marriage to the beautiful Desdemona sets tongues wagging, and Dominic West is the villainous Iago, who drips poison into Othello's ear.
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