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(C 1599-1600) Lust-filled and corrupt Spain is the setting for the first Elizabethan play in which a Moor takes centre stage. Unlike Othello, Prince Eleazar is out of the mould of previous stage villain Moors such as Aaron and Ithamore. However he has more wit and craft than his predecessors and plots his way through a world of complete duplicity, only to be out-manoeuvred in a play of his own making in Act V. This is a dominion in which Iago, rather than Othello, would feel at homeOther listings | |
| 28 Nov 04 | Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, West End :: V165 listing details L0734904369 |
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