Iago and Macbeth Comparison and Contrast Tragic heroes are identified in many of Shakespeare's plays. In The Tragedy of Macbeth and The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, a character is developed as the tragic hero. In Shakespearean literature, the tragic hero must possess a tragic f...

Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear are three prominent Jacobean tragedies that William Shakespeare created with notable tragic protagonists. According to Aristotle a tragic protagonist is a nobleman or person from high honor who contributes to his own degeneration and illustrates a flaw or weakness in...

In Orson Welles' Othello, 4 different women played the part of Desdemona. While Welles was hunting for the best Desdemona, the scenes that don't have her in it were being shot. The first was a girl from Italy, cast only for her body because she could not speak any English. The second w...

In the article, Othello and the pattern of Shakespearean Tragedy, by G.R. Hibbard published in 1968, Hibbard discusses how Othello, by William Shakespeare, stands apart from the rest of the Shakespearean Tragedies. He uses examples from the play to support his thesis of how the tragic pattern in...