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10 unusual facts about Othello


Aharon Meskin

During his career on the Hebrew stage, Meskin played many leading roles, including Othello; the Golem; Shylock (in The Merchant of Venice); Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman; the black pastor Stephen Kumalo in Cry, The Beloved Country; Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny and many others.

Chitrasena

Besides spearheading the revival of indigenous dance forms, Chitrasena also made his stage debut as Othello in the Ernest MacIntyre production of Shakespeare's ‘Othello' and Emperor Jones in the late Karan Breckenridge's production of Eugene O'Neill's 'Emperor Jones'.

Cress Williams

Williams acted in a 1990 Fullerton College production of William Shakespeare's tragedy, Othello, which was directed by Tom Blank.

Lars Hanson

Born Lars Mauritz Hanson in Göteborg, Sweden, Hanson began his career on the stages of Sweden after studying drama in Helsinki, Finland and Stockholm as a Shakespearean actor, appearing in such classics as Othello and Hamlet.

Luan Qerimi

He is known for his work in theater, and has performed in plays by William Shakespeare (Othello, Hamlet) and Bertold Brecht (The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui) in addition to works by Albanian dramatists such as Kolë Jakova and Ekrem Kryeziu.

Othello, Washington

Since 1998, Othello has also been home to the Sandhill Crane Festival, celebrating the annual arrival of Sandhill Cranes to the nearby Columbia National Wildlife Refuge.

The post office was named Othello after a post office also called Othello in Roane County, Tennessee.

Paul Mounet

Mounet garnored acclaim for his roles in Les Erynnyes, L'Arlésienne, Othello, Patrie, Hamlet, La Furie, Anthony, Le Roi, L'Enigme, Le Dédale, and Œdipe Roi.

Pride, Pomp, and Circumstance

The episode title is a quote from Act III, Scene III of William Shakespeare's play Othello.

The episode title is a quote from Act III, Scene III of William Shakespeare's play Othello, wherein the title character bids farewell not only to being happily married, but also to his career as a military general, after receiving news his wife has been unfaithful.


4th Computer Olympiad

As with each year's Computer Olympiad, computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Awari, backgammon, bridge, chess, Chinese Chess, draughts, Gin rummy, Go, Go-Moku, Othello, Renju and Scrabble.

Academy Theatre

During a sabbatical as an NBC producer, Canfield convinced the network to create Masterpiece Playhouse, one-hour productions of seven classic plays including Hedda Gabler, Uncle Vanya, and Othello.

Alasgar Alakbarov

His most famous roles were those of Vagif (Vagif by Samad Vurgun) and Othello (Othello by William Shakespeare).

Amanda Harris

A longstanding member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, she received an Olivier Award for her role as Emilia in the 2004 RSC production of Othello.

Andrea Maffei

Skilled in foreign languages, he translated several works of English and German literature into Italian, particularly the plays of Schiller, Shakespeare's Othello and The Tempest, many works of Goethe (including Faust) and John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Arrigo Boito

Although Verdi's aim to write the music for an opera based on Shakespeare's King Lear never came to anything, (except that a libretto for Re Lear does exist), Boito provided subtle and resonant libretti for Verdi's last masterpieces, Otello in 1887 (which was based on Shakespeare's play Othello) and then Falstaff in 1893, the composer's second comedy, based on The Merry Wives of Windsor and parts of Henry IV.

Bert Hubbard

In 1960 he choreographed two mixed trios Othello after Verdi's Otello and A Medieval Morality that were the first to receive top honors from IAAA in that category.

BravaHDTV

The productions consists of stage performances such as La bohème, Othello, Aida, Swan Lake, Tosca, Zoroastre and Così fan tutte.

Edward Francis Finden

The separate engravings he executed included: The Harvest Waggon, after Thomas Gainsborough; As Happy as a King after William Collins; Captain Macheath in Prison, after Gilbert Stuart Newton; The Little Gleaner after Sir William Beechey; The Princess Victoria, after Richard Westall and Othello telling his Exploits to Brabantio and Desdemona, after Douglas Cowper.

Franz Limmer

The theater ran up to 15 opera productions a year, including local premieres of Beethoven's Fidelio and Verdi's Ernani, Macbeth, Il Trovatore and Othello.

Gʻafur Gʻulom

He translated Le Mariage de Figaro of Pierre Beaumarchais, Othello of William Shakespeare, and Gulistan of Saadi Shirazi into Uzbek.

Huseyn Arablinski

His other stage roles Shah (Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar by A.Hagverdiyev), Khlestakov (The Government Inspector by N.Gogol), Heydar bey (Haji Gara by M.F.Akhundov), Othello (Othello by W.Shakespeare), etc.

John Edward McCullough

Virginius was his greatest success, although even in this part and as Othello he was coldly received in England (1881).

Kadhaprasangam

William Shakespeare's Othello, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Kumaran Asan's Karuna, Vallathol Narayana Menon’s Magdalana Mariyam, Changampuzha Krishna Pillai's Ramanan, Thirunalloor Karunakaran's Rani and Vayalar Ramavarma's Aaayisha were some of the literary classics thus successfully adapted for Kadhaprasangam.

Khalil Mutran

In 1912 he translated Shakespeare’s drama Othello into Arabic as Utayl, which is the most celebrated and best-known translation of the drama into Arabic.

Ludwig Dessoir

He succeeded Karl Devrient at Karlsruhe, and went in 1847 to Berlin, where he acted Othello and Hamlet with great success, he received a permanent engagement at that theatre.

Othello Ballet Suite/Electronic Organ Sonata No. 1

Othello was recorded November 3, 1967 at the studios of Radio Sweden in Stockholm.

Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo

Palazzo del Bovolo was chosen by Orson Welles as one of the main filming locations (Brabantio's house) for his 1952 screen adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello and the staircase is prominently featured in the film.

Priscilla Cooper Tyler

While playing Desdemona in a production of Othello in Richmond, Virginia she met Robert Tyler, the eldest son of wealthy plantation owner and former US Senator John Tyler.

Revenge for Honour

In The Review of English Studies (1935), C.F. Beckingham pronounces the play as being "worthless", comparing it unfavorably to William Shakespeare's Othello, and noting borrowings from that play.

Richard Daly

He was tutored by Charles Macklin, and debuted as Othello at London's Covent Garden on 4 March 1779 to an ill-received performance.

Rose Eytinge

Among her principal later parts were Nancy Sykes in Oliver Twist, Gervaise in Drink, Ophelia to the Hamlet of E. L. Davenport, and Desdemona with James W. Wallack as Othello and Davenport as Iago.

Rudolph Walker

On the stage, he appeared in the first production of Mustapha Matura's Play Mas at the Royal Court Theatre in 1974, and has played the titular character in stage productions of Shakespeare's Othello, directed by David Thacker and Charles Marowitz, and also Caliban in a production of The Tempest directed by Jonathan Miller.

Sampieru Corsu

A modern legend holds this to have been partial inspiration for William Shakespeare's Othello.

Sue Holderness

She began her acting career with Manchester’s 69 Theatre Company in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Peer Gynt and as Desdemona in Catch My Soul (Jack Good’s rock-musical version of Othello).

The Vampires of Venice

He went on to criticise Lucian Msamati as Guido as he "seemed to be taken straight out of Othello", negatively compared the love triangle between the Doctor, Amy and Rory to the storyline with previous characters Rose and Mickey, and thought the ending was too similar to "The Idiot's Lantern" and "Evolution of the Daleks".

Tim Peper

He has performed in numerous theatrical productions such as Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Othello, Lobby Hero, Waiting for Godot, and Fool for Love.

Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin

Besides these compositions, Tsegaye translated Shakespeare (Hamlet and Othello being the most popular of these works), as well as Molière's "Tartouffe" and "Doctor Despite Himself", as well as Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage".

Zaib Shaikh

He is co-founder of the Whistler Theatre Project, and also writer and director of the CBC adaptation of Othello.