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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.
Arthur Koestler
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[a character in Mr Puff's play within a play,'The Spanish Armanda'] Perdition catch my soul but I do love thee. : Haven't I heard that line before? : No, I fancy not.Where pray? :Yes, I think there is something like it in Othello. : Gad! now you put me in mind on't, I believe there isbut that's of no consequence; all that can be said is, that two people happened to hit upon the same thoughtand Shakespeare made use of it first, that's all.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

— BEEFEATER:SNEERPUFFDANGLEPUFF1779  The Critic, act 3, sc.1.

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The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.

wystan hugh auden

— "The Greeks and Us", p. 21

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Koodiyattam now finds a place in more contemporary settings. [Margi Madhu, for example], did a Koodiyattam rendering of Othello in Theatre Works' play ‘Desdemona', which had Indonesian dancers, a Burmese puppeteer and Korean drummers.


— Dr. Heike Moser in "Bowled over by Koodiyattam".

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Othello: I do not think but Desdemona's honest. Iago: Long live she so, and long live you to think so! Othello: And, yet, how nature erring from itself, Iago: Ay, there's the point.


— Scene iii

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