All 4 Uses of
Othello
in
Long Day's Journey into Night
- In 1874 when Edwin Booth came to the theater in Chicago where I was leading man, I played Cassius to his Brutus one night, Brutus to his Cassius the next, Othello to his Iago, and so on.†
Act 4
- The first night I played Othello, he said to our manager, "That young man is playing Othello better than I ever did!"†
Act 4 *
- The first night I played Othello, he said to our manager, "That young man is playing Othello better than I ever did!"†
Act 4
- The praise Edwin Booth gave my Othello.†
Act 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(Othello) Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy (c. 1604)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)