Othello (1995 film) Othello (1995 film) Othello is a 1995 film based on William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. It was directed by Oliver Parker and stars Laurence Fishburne as Othello, Irène Jacob as Desdemona, and Kenneth Branagh as Iago. This is the first cinematic reproduction of the play released by a major studio that casts an African American actor to play the role of Othello, although low-budget independent films of the play starring Ted Lange and Yaphet Kotto predated it. This film is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Othello". Othello is a Moor who has secretly married his native Venetian lover
Manservant and Maidservant Manservant and Maidservant Manservant and Maidservant is a 1947 novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett. It was published in the United States with the title "Bullivant and the Lambs." Whenever the author was asked which of her novels were her favorites, she always mentioned "Manservant and Maidservant" and "A House and Its Head." “"Manservant and Maidservant" is among the funniest and most surprising of Compton-Burnett's inventions. It focuses on the household of Horace Lamb, sadist, skinflint, and tyrant, a man whose children fear and hate him and whose wife is planning to elope <nowiki>[</nowiki>with Horace's cousin<nowiki>]</nowiki>. But it is when Horace undergoes