Desdemona is the only named character in Cinthio's tale, with his few other characters identified only as " the Moor " ( Othello ), " the squadron leader " ( Cassio ), " the ensign " ( Iago ), and " the ensign's wife " ( Emilia ).

The character of Desdemona is based on the character of the same name from William Shakespeare's play Othello.

In Shakespeare's play Othello, the title character is filled with jealousy at the thought of losing his beloved Desdemona: his ensign, Iago, is consumed with envy of Othello ’ s prestige.

The album's title is a phrase uttered by the titular character of William Shakespeare's Othello toward his fiance, Desdemona in Act One, Scene Two: " I have but an hour of love, of worldly matters and direction, To spend with thee: we must obey the time.

Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).

She next portrayed the Desdemona character in Omkara, the Hindi adaptation of William Shakespeare's Othello.

Desdemona is a character in William Shakespeare's play Othello.

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** The titular character in Othello murders his wife, Desdemona, for the same reason.

Mr Clayton is Othello and his wife is Desdemona and the missing character of Iago is in fact Commander McLaren.

Desdemona, a major character in the novel but not its protagonist, is a psychic based on a small island off the coast of Hispaniola.

He played Iago in Margaret Webster's Broadway production of Othello ( 1943 ), which starred Paul Robeson in the title role, Webster as Emilia, and Ferrer's wife, Uta Hagen, as Desdemona.

RCA Victor also issued several spoken word albums in the 1950s and 60s, notably the soundtracks of the films Richard III, A Man for All Seasons and The Taming of the Shrew, as well as complete versions of the National Theatre of Great Britain stage productions of Othello ( starring Laurence Olivier ) and Much Ado About Nothing ( starring Maggie Smith, who also played Desdemona in the Olivier Othello ).

Between 1948 and 1952, she played Portia, Gertrude, Lady Macbeth, Katherine the shrew, Desdemona, Katherine of Aragon, Hermione in The Winter's Tale, and Beatrice to Gielgud's Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing.

After Lady Macbeth she played Desdemona, Rosalind, Ophelia and Volumnia, all with great success ; but it was as Queen Catherine in Henry VIII that she discovered a part almost as well adapted to her acting powers as that of Lady Macbeth.

Julia also played Othello with Frances Conroy as his Desdemona and Richard Dreyfuss as Iago.

In the following year they played Montgomerie and Matilda in Richard Cumberland's The Carmelite, and in 1785 Adorni and Camiola in Kemble's adaptation of Philip Massinger's A Maid of Honor, and Othello and Desdemona.

She played George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan ( 1951 ) on Broadway, and Desdemona in a production which toured and played Broadway, featuring Paul Robeson as Shakespeare's Othello and her then-husband Jose Ferrer as Iago.

* Desdemona, a rôle from Shakespeare's Othello in the film O, renamed Desi Brable, played by Julia Stiles ( 1999 / 2001 )

She played Semernia in Aphra Behn's The Widow Ranter in 1689, a breeches role, a type of role she would often return to, and was by 1690 playing parts like Lady Anne in Shakespeare's Richard III and Desdemona in Othello.

There she played Lady Macbeth, Constance in King John, Desdemona, and Imogen, and took part in the first production of John Westland Marston's

She played Desdemona in a production of Othello at the A. D. C.

( Ure, who dubs Desdemona in this version, had previously played the role opposite Welles in a 1951 stage production of Othello-a production that was staged to raise funds to complete the film.

* Joan Bazell, actress with stage name Joan Macdonald who played many leading roles in the 1950s ; her Desdemona and Ophelia are well remembered, also became one of Australia's leading fashion models, and started the Joan Macdonald modelling school in Melbourne ;

He is upset by this development because he loves Desdemona and had previously asked her father for her hand in marriage.

Brabantio arrives and accuses Othello of seducing Desdemona by witchcraft, but Othello defends himself successfully before an assembly that includes the Duke of Venice, Brabantio's kinsman Lodovico and Gratiano, and various senators.

Desdemona laments her suffering, remembering the fate of her mother's maid, who was forsaken by her lover.

Othello tries to justify his actions to the distressed Emilia by accusing Desdemona of adultery.

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* In William Shakespeare's tragedy, Othello, the antagonist Iago has been noted by some literary critics as being archetypal in adhering to Machiavelli's ideals by advancing himself through machination and duplicity with the consequence of causing the demise of both Othello and Desdemona.

This part, and that of Desdemona, were among her great impersonations ; in both she was considered by some critics superior to Sarah Siddons, who expressed her fear of her in one of her letters.

* Othello, directed by John Dexter, with Laurence Olivier in the title-role, Frank Finlay as Iago and Maggie Smith as Desdemona ( 1964 ).

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* Desdemona ( Otello ( Rossini )), a soprano role in the 1816 opera Otello by Gioachino Rossini