Word: othellos
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...write the scene myself. I'm glad I used Shakespeare; it allowed me, an inexperienced playwright, to shape things in the play." Macbeth, Hamlet and Julius Casear provide matrices for most of MacBird's episodes, and supply the better part of the linguistic embroidery. Miss Garson also draws on Othello for bits of martial brouhaha and on Richard II for the pervasive vegetable metaphor that crops up in MacBird's first press conference ("This land will be a garden carefully pruned; / We'll lop off any branch that looks too tall / That seems to grow too lofty or too fast...
...Fall of 1955, Daniel Seltzer came to Harvard as a graduate student in English. Before long, he became involved in Harvard theatre, and both directed and starred in an Adams House production of Othello. Seltzer got his Ph.D. in Fall '59, and was made an instructor in English the same term. He was one of the seven founding members of the faculty student Loeb advisory committee, and after he became an assistant professor in '61 he was named to the all-powerful Faculty Committee on Drama...
Graceless, monotonous, unfaithful to its source, Hamlet is less tragedy than catastrophe in the hands of Grigory Kozintzev. This is far inferior to the Olivier and Burton filmed Hamlets, and it is less relevant to Shakespeare's art than both Orson Welles's diced-up Othello, which took its script from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, and Sergei Youtkevich's Othello, which like the present film could display its poetry only in subtitles...
...students, an experiment no less dehumanizing for being silly. Woyzeck's firmest hold on life is a woman (Elisabeth Orth) who has borne his child out of wedlock. More sensualist than wanton, she betrays him with a dashing drum major, and the crazed Woyzeck, like a conscript Othello, stabs his flyblown wench to death...
...OTHELLO. Sir Laurence Olivier, in sometimes distracting blackface, plays Shakespeare's Moor as a one-man show...