Resonate more than three hundred years after his death. She could have chosen everyone to become her husband. Popular in his lifetime, Shakespeare's works continue to Desdemona is a young and beautiful lady from one of the most important aristocratic families of Venice. Of Lord Chamberlain's Men, a popular dramatic company of hisĭay, and of the storied Globe Theatre in London.

Like many of hisĬontemporaries, including Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeareīegan his career on the stage, eventually rising to become part-owner Histories, tragedies, comedy, and romance, Shakespeare's most famous Numerous narrative poems and short verses. Under the patronage of QueenĮlizabeth I, he penned more than 30 plays, 154 sonnets, and Shakespeare was a seventeenth-century writer and dramatist, and Translation that puts Shakespeare into the kind of English peopleĬomplete list of characters with descriptionsĪrguably the greatest English-language playwright, William The left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand modern You Shakespeare's complete text of Othello on Read William Shakespeare's great tragedy Othello in all its brilliance and actually understand what it means. and Canada for another season, playing in 45 cities, a longer run than any other Shakespeare play in U.S. Shakespeare play on Broadway, with 296 performances. Was quite popular, and still holds the record for longest-running Play in the United States to cast a black Othello, noted actor andĬivil rights activist Paul Robeson, opposite Uta Hagen asĭesdemona and her then-husband Jose Ferrer as the evil Iago. Shubert Theatre was the first major production of the Shakespeare The Theatre Guild's 1943 production of Othello at the Sam

The 'green-eyed monster' soon rears its ugly head, as the previously happy couple are set onto a path to tragedy. Seemingly trustworthy ensign, Iago, suggests to him that she may be Sees his happy marriage to the beautiful Desdemona destroyed when his Othello, a Moor who has become a general in the Venetian army, An epic Shakespearean tragedy, Othello, is brimming with jealousy, passion, ambition and betrayal.

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