#othello

'Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#been #discovery #drama #drawn #english

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul. ↗

— Kyle MacLachlan

#black #come #evil #i #interesting

Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#speech

Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice. On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken myself to be in some way the traitor Iago punished, in an unwritten sixth act. Chained in hell. But I was also Venice; the state left behind; the thing journeyed from. ↗

— John Fowles

#distance #othello #outgrowing-others #personal-growth #reference-to-shakespeare

And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#life

I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#around #did #good #how #i

Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#feminism #othello #equality

I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#cheek #company #david #doing #done

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello. ↗

— Tim Roth

#i #love #othello #play #would

I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime. ↗

— Ted Lange

#character #dying #every #henry #i