Othello: Iago and Othello speak

Is Iago being truthful or spinning a web of deceit?

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Entertainment

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• Othello
• Iago
• Desdemona
• Cassio

[Noodles37UK]

Iago was the original troll.

[askjiir]

Fishburne play here the best Othello i have seen so far.

[poeticjustice2000]

Chaos is come again.

[aDustBowlDance]

@directorkatie Act 3 scene 3 and it starts around line 95 :)

[Thevoiceofoz]

Lawrence Fishburne looked very handsome in this movie. I bet he would of got a lot of women in his prime. His got a cool beard too.

[directorkatie]

Does anyone know what Act and Scene this is from?

[csawyer55]

Type in Shakespeare in the Kitchen to see an actor create 14 of Shakespeare's greatest characters.

[hanshotfirst1138]

Fishburn has such a great voice. He brings that regal quality and bearing and sense of power. I wonder if he's ever done any theater?

[jjtheman]

Iago is such a bastard lol. Oh, and this should be called Othello, the Cowboy of Venice (a nod to Mr. Fishburne's previous acting employment).

[godblessolbas]

@Slypaperclips

That's a good text, thank you. I still feel as though Iago feels genuine resentment for Cassio - "A Florentine, mere prattle without practise", and the viciousness of his soliloquy's where he explicitly justifies his hate for Othello; " I hate the more, and it's rumoured that twixt my sheets he's... done my office." Just goes to show his enigmatic status, given the amount of different interpretaitons he provokes!

[Slypaperclips]

@godblessolbas Auden wrote an essay called 'The Joker in the Pack' which describes his thoughts on Iago. He suggests that Iago is motivated simply by his own lack of humanity and sense of worthlessness, so he likes to expose the weaknesses of others to make himself feel powerful and therefore worth something. Ultimately, he doesn't care about 'office' ot Othello's race. It's well worth a read.