Word: othello
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...peacocking about in an ever-crisp uniform-Saraiva de Carvalho has proved himself to be a tough, if opportunistic leader. Born in 1936 in Lourenço Marques, the capital of Mozambique, he first aspired to a theatrical career-in fact his parents named him for Shakespeare's Othello. Since his family lacked money for acting lessons, he joined the army instead. He served for five years in Angola and for three in Guinea-Bissau under Spínola, who, in a never forgotten slight, excluded the brash young captain from his inner circle of trusted officers...
Leontes is impulsive and paranoid; and his jealousy, unlike Othello's is wholly internal, "begot upon itself." His "too hot, too hot!" speech should be sufficient preparation for nay audience. There is also a strong strain of immaturity in Leontes. Kahn underlines this at the very start by showing us Leontes and Polixenes, an almost twin-like pair, stripped to the waist. Trying to recapture their stripped to the waist, trying to recapture their boyhood by arm wrestling. When Leontes, a bit later, sees Polixenes and Hermione innocuously holding hand, he starts chewing on the end of the tie-cord...
...accuse his visiting boyhood chum King Polixenes (Jack Ryland) of fathering the child his innocent wife Hermione (Maria Tucci) is about to bring into the world. Many people have complained that we are not given the full background and unfolding of Leontes's jealousy. But Shakespeare had already written Othello and there was no need for him to write that play all over again. His purpose here is quite different...
...most Alvarez-like character in Hers, a graying professor of English literature, suffers from a similar blindness when it comes to looking into his own situation. Cuckolded left and right, he is capable only of sniffing at his wife's "roused animal juices" and muttering lines from Othello. The heroine of this book is no Desdemona, but she has the professor thoroughly confused; as the annoyingly well-informed narrator tells us several timer, he is so wrapped up in his books that he can't tell the real thing when it pokes him in the face. It is a cheap...
...quote-from Olivier himself-gives the whole show away. As he concluded a performance of Othello, the world's greatest actor swept past his applauding co-stars and into his dressing room. "What's the matter, Larry? It was great!" said an actor. Olivier growled back loudly: "I know it was great, damn it, but I don't know how I did it. So how can I be sure I can do it again...