Iago Iago Iago () is a fictional character in Shakespeare's "Othello" (c. 1601–1604). Iago is the play's main antagonist, and Othello's standard-bearer. He is the husband of Emilia, who is in turn the attendant of Othello's wife Desdemona. Iago hates Othello and devises a plan to destroy him by making him believe that his wife is having an affair with his lieutenant, Michael Cassio. The role is thought to have been first played by Robert Armin, who typically played intelligent clown roles like Touchstone in "As You Like It" or Feste in "Twelfth Night". The character's source is traced to Giovanni
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