Word: othello
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Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier have done it, but no black man has ever acted Othello in a major movie. Now LAURENCE FISHBURNE is close to signing on to play Shakespeare's Moor in a version directed by Kenneth Branagh. Some actors, given current sensitivities, might balk at playing theater's most famous wife killer, especially if they had won renown as bad husband Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It? But at least this time Fishburne won't have to wear mean purple bell-bottoms...
...comedies, women are speaking," Gilligan said. "In the tragedies, they go mad (Hamlet), they're strangled (Othello), they unsex themselves (Macbeth) or they say nothing (King Lear...
...went to his Expos class. I did my homework before, and dutifully read 'Othello,'" she said. "I sat in the back and was enlightened with great pearls of wisdom spewing forth...
...right, so it isn't exactly like Othello...
...barring blacks from the dominant culture, Brown suggests, whites effectively turned them toward their own heritage. Indeed, the historical African Company followed mocked-at stagings of Richard III and Othello with dramas about Caribbean slave revolts, apparently the first plays by African Americans ever staged...