Photo Title
Preview
Production Title
Othello
Production Date
1965
Photograph Caption
When a message arrives recalling Othello to Venice and appointing Cassio his successor, the frenzied Moor publicly strikes Desdemona and reviles her as an adulteress, despite her protests of loyalty. (Act IV, Scene I)
Dialogue
Othello: "Devil!" [Striking her]
Desdemona: "I have not deserved this"...
Othello: "O devil, devil! If that the earth could teem with a woman's tears,
Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.
Out of my sight!" (IV.i.251-258).
Play Title
Othello
Venue
Film
Company Location
Great Britain
Company Name
National Theatre of Great Britain
Genre
Tragedy
Character
Othello: Laurence Oliver
Desdemona: Maggie Smith
Other Credits
Anthony Have-Lock Allan - Producer
John Brabourne - Producer
Stuart Burge - Director
Jocelyn Herbert - Designer
William Kellner - Designer
Other Notes
Performed as it was presented on the stage by the National Theatre of Great Britain. A Warner Brothers release.
Object Type
black-and-white photographs
Size of Original
8 x 10 in.
Donor
Cole, Joseph E.
Repository
Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.
Format
jpeg
