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Iago is a wonderful character to be introduced to when you're 16 or so, as a heads-up that there are people like that out there. He's also one of my favourite characters in literature. To address a thing the OP touched on, I never saw Iago as attracted to Othello; if anything, Iago is utterly in love with his idea of himself as Mr. Awesome, so much cleverer than everyone else, and is unable to see why Othello didn't promote him. The way he sets out to manipulate everyone around him to their detriment, while charming the audience with his honest monologues, is the model for a mini-genre (think Francis Urquhart/Frank Underwood, or various villains in Christopher Brookmyre's entertaining books) and an astonishingly good sketch of a sociopath.
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kaworu posted:we did a production of Comedy of Errors - definitely one of the lesser works in his canon, possibly the least in terms of depth? I'm not going to argue the point either way. Not that you're arguing it, but I'd put The Winter's Tale down there, sort of like "The Tempest, if The Tempest sucked." Although it's almost saved by "Exit [Antigonus], pursued by a bear."
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