Iago
[ee-ah-goh]
- the villain in Shakespeare's Othello.
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For instance, Iago declares in Othello that, “Good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used.”
Is That a Bottle of Wine I See Before Me? The Delights of Drunk ShakespeareTom Teodorczuk
June 1, 2014
In 2009, he played Iago, opposite John Ortiz as Othello, at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
Iago is such a transfixing portrait of evil exactly because his motives are forever murky.
JI: There is a sort of Iago—someone who is up to some real trouble making—in the book.
Historical Examples
Again and again the reader asks himself why Iago is so venomous.
The Man ShakespeareFrank Harris
His quick wits jump to the conclusion that Iago, "this honest creature!"
The Man ShakespeareFrank Harris
He allows Iago to exhibit himself in his own way, as nature does.
BunyanJames Anthony Froude
Then he half-sang, half-recited, snatches from one of Iago's songs in Othello.
Recollections of Dante Gabriel RossettiT. Hall Caine
I'm like Iago: 'from this time forth I never will speak word!'
The Tragic MuseHenry James
Iago
[(ee-ah-goh)]
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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