Word: othellos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hailstorm of bricks and paving stones. Tear-gas bombs thrown by the outnumbered and disorganized troops were picked up by schoolboys and hurled back. Three Turks died by gunfire as they drove through a roadblock near the burned-out garage; two others were slain at the foot of Othello's Tower in Famagusta. Before the mobs were dispersed, seven were dead, more than 100 injured in the worst rioting Cyprus had yet seen...
Under the Tower. On the day the debate did begin, shops were shuttered across the island in a general strike. Under the shadow of Othello's Tower in Famagusta, Gjreek Cypriots clashed with police in a two-hour battle. At Ephtakomi, someone defiantly flew a Greek flag; a British patrol attempting to tear it down was stoned by the villagers. The patrol counterattacked with fixed bayonets...
Question: "What play of Shakespeare deals with jealousy aroused by a traitor out of pure hatred?" Answer: "Othello, of course." True; but Shakespeare had also treated this subject previously, for it is the main theme of Much Ado About Nothing. And he would return to it again, with self-interest substituted for pure hatred, in Cymbeline. The material for all three variations on the theme came from earlier sources...
This summer's third American Shakespeare Festival is by far the best to date. Any group can justifiably take much pride in a season that gives us such great performances as Earle Hyman's Othello, Morris Carnovsky's Shylock and Alfred Drake's Benedick...
...trip--to see "Merchant of Venice"--has been scheduled because of popular demand after last Saturday's trip to see "Othello". Thirty summer students made the trip at that time...