iago

     

Iago is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's play Othello.

Trivia about iago

  • Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge referred to the "motiveless malignity" of this character
  • In the last scene of "Othello", this villain stabs his wife Emilia, who sings a little & then dies
  • His diabolic plotting leads to tragedy for Othello & Desdemona
  • Jerry Lee Lewis did Shakespeare! in 1968's "Catch My Soul", a rock musical based on "Othello", he played this villain
  • Desdemona's lady-in-waiting is Emilia, this man's wife
  • After Othello stabs him, this villain says, "I bleed, sir, but not kill'd"
  • We'd like to see the 1953 TV production of "Othello" -- it featured Walter Matthau as this villain
  • "Othello" opens with Roderigo addressing this villain: "Tush, never tell me; I take it much unkindly"
  • "O, thereby hangs a tail", says the clown shortly before this villain's entrance in Act 3 of "Othello"
  • Played Cassio like a keyboard (BEG)
  • Villain in "Othello" who says, "Wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used"
  • If you give your son this villainous 4-letter name from "Othello", you're just asking for trouble
  • The name of this villain in "Othello" is a Spanish version of James
  • In "Othello", he delivers the line, "Beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-ey'd monster"
  • In "Othello", Brabantio tells him, "Thou art a villain"; he retorts, "You are -- a senator"
  • Brabantio, Desdemona's father, asks this aide to Othello, "What profane wretch art thou?"
  • He claims that the sleeping Michael Cassio kissed him hard while dreaming of Desdemona
  • This villainous aide in a Shakespeare play states flatly, "I hate the Moor"
  • When Othello decides he wants to poison Desdemona, this villain suggests that he strangle her instead
  • "Beware, my Lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster"
  • This villain tells Roderigo, "Now, sir, be judge yourself whether I in any just term am affined to love the Moor"
  • His statement to Othello, "My Lord, you know I love you", is not entirely truthful
  • Emilia--her husband, also pretty much responsible for the title guy's suicide
  • In "Othello":Iago,Othello,Desdemona
  • Roderigo, already wounded by Cassio (this guy lets everyone do the hard work for him!)

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