The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio, when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago.


Books with substantial mentioning of Othello

Vanessa Gerhards
Shakespeare Reloaded, The Shakespeare Renaissance 1989-2004
Trier, 2011

Douglas Brode
Shakespeare in the Movies, From the Silent Era to Shakespeare in Love
Oxford, 2000

Beth A. Fhaner and Christopher P. Scanlon (eds.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1996, 15th Edition. A Survey of the Films of 1995
Detroit; New York; Toronto; London, 1996

Reviews

Geoffrey Macnab, Othello, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 2 (February), 1996 pp. 51-52