Word: othellos
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...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...
...Lies to cause harm, or "Trust me on this one." The role model here is Shakespeare's Iago, insidiously, malevolently and falsely poisoning Othello's mind against his faithful wife Desdemona. These are the lies people fear and resent the most, statements that will not only deceive them but also trick them into foolish or ruinous courses of behavior. Curiously, though, lying to hurt people just for the hell or the fun of it -- the Iago syndrome -- is probably quite rare. Though Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote influentially about Iago's "motiveless malignity," the play itself does not really support this...