Word: othello
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter Hampden announced definitely his intention to play repertory in the National Theatre, New York, next winter. Among the productions now planned are Othello, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The Black Flag, by A. E. Thomas, and an adaptation of Browning's The Ring and the Book...
...OTHELLO-Shakespeare survives a rather heavy and over-subtitled picturization-with a fine, if uncalled for, mob scene, and some excellent acting by Emil Jannings as the Moor...
...most striking characteristic of 'Othello' is its structure. Whereas in most tragedies, the hero maintains control until the turning point in the play is reached, here we have the villain in command until the climax. It is proportionately hard to understand". Professor G. L. Kittredge '82 emphasized this point in the second lecture of his series on the "Five tragedies of Shakspere" last night in Sanders Theatre...
During the course of his exposition of the plot, Professor Kittredge presented the salient features involved in the makeup of the characters. Of Othello he said. "He is often throught to have brought down destruction on his head by jealousy. It is not so. Othello's trouble is with his head not his heart, for he means well but has not the ability to choose". In the same manner the speaker discredited the popular impression of Iago as a smooth sly man by pointing out the absolute trust which was place on him by Othello, and the honesty with which...
Professor George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature, will deliver the second of a series of five lectures on "The five tragedies of Shakspere" at 8 o'clock this evening in Sanders Theatre. "Othello" will be the subject of his talk tonight, and it is expected that Professor Kittredge will treat it by a critical analysis in much the same way as he dealt with "Macbeth" last Tuesday evening...