The temptation scene in Orson Welles' and Folias d'Arte's adaptations of "Othello"
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https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-0739.21.2.124-135Keywords:
Orson Welles, Folias d’Arte, Othello, Temptation sceneAbstract
The aim of this article is to compare and contrast the portrayal of the temptation scene in both Orson Welles’s film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Othello (1952) and Folias d’Arte’s theatrical production of the same play, which premiered in 2003 in São Paulo, in order to identify and analyze the depiction of Iago’s manipulative schemes towards Othello. The temptation scene is considered a crucial moment in the play in which Iago cleverly gathers all his strength as a strategist to influence Othello’s mind with the idea that Desdemona is betraying him with Cassio−and Iago achieves such obstinate goal.
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