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Title Othello [videorecording] / by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; a production by Jonathan Miller.

Imprint New York : Ambrose Video Pub., [2000 or 2001]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  822.33 T7Ot3 2001    ---  Available
Description 1 videodisc (208 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Series The complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare. Tragedy
System Details DVD.
Cast Anthony Pedley (Roderigo), Bob Hoskins (Iago), Geoffrey Chater (Brabantio), Alexander Davion (Gratiano), Anthony Hopkins (Othello), David Yelland (Cassio), Joseph O'Conor (Lodovico), Peter Walmsley (Officer), John Barron (Duke of Venice), Seymour Green (First Senator), Howard Goorney (Second Senator), Penelope Wilton (Desdemona), Rosemary Leach (Emilia), Tony Steedman (Montano), Max Harvey (First Gentleman), Terence McGinity (Second Gentleman), Nigel Nobes (Third Gentleman), Wendy Morgan (Bianca), Arabella Weir (Lady in Waiting).
Credits Senior cameraman, Jim Atkinson ; music composed by Stephen Oliver ; videotape editor, Malcolm Banthorpe.
Note Originally broadcast on the BBC series The Shakespeare plays in 1981.
Event Taped Mar. 9-17, 1981 at the BBC Television studios in London.
Note DVD includes the complete script in Microsoft Word document format.
System Details System requirements for script: PC or Mac with Microsoft Word, DVD-ROM drive.
Summary Shakespeare's play about the tragic consequences of jealousy. Othello appoints Cassio as his chief lieutenant, arousing the jealosy of Iago, who conspires to undo them both. Iago tells Othello that his wife, the beautiful Desdemona, is having an affair with Cassio. Othello strangles Desdemona before learning of Iago's evil, and then kills himself in remorse.
Subject Othello (Fictitious character from Shakespeare) -- Drama.
Genre/Form Television plays.
Television adaptations.
Added Author Miller, Jonathan, 1934-
Hopkins, Anthony, 1937-
Hoskins, Bob, 1942-2014.
Wilton, Penelope, 1946-
Pedley, Anthony.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello.
British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.
Time-Life Television.
Ambrose Video Publishing.
Added Title BBC TV Shakespeare (Television program)

 
    
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