Because Shakespeare gave his hero and antihero equal weight, the contest between the actors playing them has never been that ...

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He also applauded a now-controversial performance by Laurence Olivier, who in 1965 used blackface to play the title role in Shakespeare's "Othello." Williams is best known for playing the charming ...

“Othello” has been brought to the screen before, most (in)famously with the 1965 version which starred Laurence Olivier as the titular character. Olivier received an Oscar nomination for his ...

She won the first of six Oscar nominations in 1965, starring opposite Laurence Olivier in "Othello", before scooping the prize four years later for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie". Her performance ...

Why did a white actor, Laurence Olivier, play the part of Othello? Could that still happen today? How Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' was adapted for the stage by the National Theatre in 2011 ...

Othello is also a set text on the post-2015 ... We see archive footage of founder Sir Laurence Olivier, explaining what he wanted it to achieve. Making Shakespeare Contemporary.