[ noun ] the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who would not trust his wife <noun.person>
Last season was highlighted by major revivals of Shakespeare's "Othello," directed by Trevor Nunn, and Henrik Ibsen's "The Master Builder," starring John Wood.
The chill from this cool "Othello" comes from Welles, who played the lead as well as directed. In the planning stages, he must have struck himself as likely to be a perfect Othello, what with his massiveness and sonorous voice.
The chill from this cool "Othello" comes from Welles, who played the lead as well as directed. In the planning stages, he must have struck himself as likely to be a perfect Othello, what with his massiveness and sonorous voice.
Her first project was "Othello," one of the pictures she had inherited from her father's estate.
In 1985 Kingsley, who is half-Indian, played Othello in a Royal Shakespeare Company production as the robed North African, rather than as the conventional elocutionary Englishman in blackface.
If Othello was the great Pillow Case, then Merry Wives looks like the great Basket Case.
The Everyman, Liverpool has taken a bold course with Shakespeare's Othello. It has been pared down to the basics, the text cut to just under two and a half hours on stage.
Willard White, making his first approach to Moses, had already learnt (from Shakespeare's Othello and Wagner's Wotan, inter alia) how to alternate thunderously ringing and gravely despairing tones of voice.
In Peck's case it was the same as Othello; it was jealousy that he pinpoints.