Iago

[ee-ah-goh]

noun

1. the villain in Shakespeare's Othello.

Iago

1. The treacherous villain in the play Othello, by William Shakespeare. As adviser to Othello, a general of Venice, Iago lies to his master and eventually drives him to murder his wife.

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I have friends and colleagues who are like, "I need to play Iago."

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Still, within his Jefferson lives a version of William Shakespeare’s Othello, another part Jones played to great acclaim with Christopher Plummer as his Iago.

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Disney’s Aladdin is at the heart of this property, with an open-plan living-room/kitchen/diner that features an extensive mural of Aladdin himself alongside Princess Jasmine, the Genie, Abu, Rajah, Iago, and the Sultan.

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Murphy compared Pearlman to Iago, the wily soldier in Shakespeare’s “Othello”; there is “always emotion” to watching an antihero, he added.

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The government plaintiffs paint Live Nation as a corporation so arrogant it would make Shakespeare’s Iago blush.

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