Word: desdemona
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...writes the Spirit that 100,000 francs have been expended upon the scenery provided for the forthcoming representation of "Othello," at the Odeon Theatre in Paris. The version to be performed is not the fine poetical version of M. Aicard, in a fragment of which Mlle. Sarah Bernhardt played Desdemona at the Theatre Francais four years ago, but a new translation by M. de Graumont, which is said to follow the poet's text with considerable fidelity. This will make at least four versions of this tragedy which have been seen on the French stage since that of Duci...