![]() ![]() But despite his being extraordinary and quite the most remarkable theatrical experience I've ever had, the person who I was drawn most to was Frank Finlay's Iago.Īnd then, I won't admit how many years later, I was working here at the BBC on the BBC's Shakespeares and there was a production that Jonathan Miller, Dr. I went to the old Vic Theater here in London and queued all night and all day to see the great Laurence Olivier do his Othello. ![]() SNODIN: Well, I've been obsessed with him ever since as a mere boy. SIMON: What prompted you to pick up Iago and run with him into a new story? His new book is called "Iago." David Snodin joins us from London. So he doesn't - until now.ĭavid Snodin, who worked as a script editor on a famous BBC production of Shakespeare's plays, has now written a novel in which he imagines what happens after Iago is put behind a stout iron prison door in Crete. From this time forth I never will speak word. ![]() Demand me nothing, he says at the end of "Othello." What you know, you know. He fools Othello into believing that his wife is betraying him - she's not - then manipulates his old friend and commander into having her killed in a fit of engineered jealousy.īut when Iago's deceits are discovered and he's imprisoned, he clams up, invoking his right to remain silent centuries before the Miranda ruling. He masquerades as a friend, and that disguises his schemes to manipulate, betray and destroy. Shakespeare's Iago is one of the great defining villains of literature. ![]()
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