Othello Pictures

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Paul Robeson as Othello and Peggy Ashcroft as Desdemona in a 1930 Savoy Theatre production of the tragedy.

Orson Welles as Othello and Michael Mac Liammoir as Iago in Welles's 1952 film adaptation of Othello.

Dorothy Tutin as Desdemona and John Gielgud as Othello in Franco Zeffirelli's 1961 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre production of Othello.

Othello and Desdemona. Act V, scene ii. By H. Hofman. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, The University of Michigan Library.

James Earl Jones as Othello and Christopher Plummer as Iago in a 1981 American Shakespeare Festival production of Othello.

Laurence Olivier as Othello and Maggie Smith as Desdemona in a 1964 National Theatre production of the tragedy.

Iago and Roderigo in Act I, Scene 1 (illustration).

Othello, the Moor of Venice (illustration).

Othello in Act I, Scene 3 (illustration).

Desdemona speaks to her father in Act I, Scene 3 (illustration).

Iago's soliloquy in Act I, Scene 3 (illustration).

Cassio courteously greets Desdemona as Iago watches in Act II, Scene 1 (illustration).

Cassio threatens Montano in Act II, Scene 3 (illustration).

Desdemona pleads Cassio's case to Othello in Act III, Scene 3 (illustration).

Iago snatches the handkerchief from Emilia in Act III, Scene 3 (illustration).

The handkerchief (illustration).

Othello and Desdemona in Act III, Scene 4, after Desdemona admits she does not have the handkerchief (illustration).

Iago and Othello in Act IV, Scene 1, where Iago presents images of Desdemona's infidelity (illustration).

Desdemona in Act IV, Scene 2, after Othello calls her a whore (illustration).

Roderigo lay dead in Act V, Scene 1 after being stabbed by Iago (illustration).

Othello prepares to smother Desdemona in Act V, Scene 2 (illustration).

Othello commits suicide in Act V, Scene 2 (illustration).