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While Othello himself is strictly the main protagonist, if an anti-hero, Abernethy suggests that the real hero of the play is Iago himself. This is due to the fact that without him, there would be no story: [6] He maybe the "tragic hero", the real hero of the play is Iago. He is the centre of interest, the mainspring of the machine.
Othello and Desdemona in Venice by Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856) The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, often shortened to Othello (/ ɒ ˈ θ ɛ l oʊ /), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare around 1603.
Desdemona (/ ˌ d ɛ z d ə ˈ m oʊ n ə /) is a character in William Shakespeare's play Othello (c. 1601–1604). Shakespeare's Desdemona is a Venetian beauty who enrages and disappoints her father, a Venetian senator, when she elopes with Othello, a Moorish Venetian military prodigy.
Macbeth was a favourite of the seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys, who saw the play on 5 November 1664 ("admirably acted"), 28 December 1666 ("most excellently acted"), ten days later on 7 January 1667 ("though I saw it lately, yet [it] appears a most excellent play in all respects"), on 19 April 1667 ("one of the best plays for a stage ...
Kullervo, a tragic hero from the Karelian and Finnish Kalevala. The influence of the Aristotelian hero extends past classical Greek literary criticism.Greek theater had a direct and profound influence on Roman theater and formed the basis of Western theater, with other tragic heroes including Macbeth in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth, and Othello in his Othello. [4]
Iago persuades Othello that Cassio is having an affair with Othello's wife, Desdemona. Michael Williams (fict) (notably played by Michael Williams in Kenneth Branagh's film version) is a soldier who challenges the disguised Henry to a duel, in Henry V. Sir Michael is a minor character, a follower of the Archbishop of York, in Henry IV, Part 1.
Othello (/ ɒ ˈ θ ɛ l oʊ /, oh-THELL-oh) is the titular protagonist in Shakespeare's Othello (c. 1601–1604). The character's origin is traced to the tale "Un Capitano Moro" in Gli Hecatommithi by Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio .
A Captain brings Duncan news of Macbeth and Banquo's victories, in the first act of Macbeth. A Captain attending on Edgar delivers Lear and Cordelia to be hanged in King Lear. A Captain of the Norwegian army explains Fortinbras' mission against the Poles, in Hamlet. A Captain in Antony's army is a minor speaking role in Antony and Cleopatra.