When it comes to great crimes passionnels, Shakespeare’s Othello ranks among the very best. The interracial marriage of Othello and Desdemona would have shocked Renaissance Venice. Racism is with us s ...
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There are few of us, if any, whose lives have not been affected by Covid-19 in 2020, some more deeply than others, whether they contracted the illness or not. Of course, contagions far more potent and ...
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In 2015 for the first time in its history the Royal Shakespeare Company cast a black actor as Iago in Shakespeare’s Othello When Iqbal Khan’s modern dress, multi-racial production began I thought they ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews RSC’s Hamlet on BBC iPlayer. Simon Godwin’s production with Paapa Essiedu in 2016 was a landmark in the history of the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was the first time a black a ...
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