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...hour.Above left, Otto Schenk's naturalistic staging of the Pilgrim's Chorus from Act I of "Tannhauser." Below right, BEVERLY SILLS in "Don Pasquale." Below, TERESA STRATAS in "The Bartered Bride." Opposite page, from top to bottom: RICHARD CASSILLY as Tannhauser, JON VICKERS as Otello, and SHERRILL MILNES as Iago...
...major acting burden falls on the heroine Rosalind, which is the longest female role in all Shakespeare (there are ten or so longer male parts, topped by Hamlet, Richard III, Iago and Henry V). Rosalind is longer even than Cleopatra, which is the most difficult of the women's roles. Bernard Shaw attributed the great popularity of Rosalind to three factors: she speaks blank verse only for a few minutes; she wears a skirt only a few minutes; and she makes love to the man instead of waiting for him to make love to her. The last idea...
...Shakespeare and his audience could have spent a lifetime without seeing a black. Only in Hitch cock or Pinter can one develop paranoia over an unseen "stranger." In Othello, black and white are not racist, but imagistic counters. It is Othello who is white in his innocent gullibility and Iago who is black in his "motiveless malignity." Both men are complementary halves, like day and night...
...Jago, the pity of it Mr. Iago--and what a name, at once insidious and insinuating--is that you judge too impetuously and are too quick to rush to judgment (Crimson 2-2-72). Since you gratuitously advertise yourself as a scholar, you might have waited for my piece--which was promised at the end of the Crimson interview--to appear before your headlong rush into obscurantist, peremptory certitudes. Not, I notice from your rigid cold war stance, that it would have made much difference to your ossified dogmatism on the matter. Only it might have made your tenuous pretension...
...pity of it, Iago! O Iago, the pity of it, Iago! Azinna Nwafor Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies