Religion and Bestiality at Stratford
Though all productions of Shakespeare only fumble at the mind and heart of that giant, any single one usually touches a nerve of the thousand here and makes it twinge. The Stratford Festival’s Othello did this. One tableau suddenly revealed a hundred side-references; and though the tableau was the producer’s idea, the references are authentic Shakespeare, however veiled in our secular age. These are the many and devastating references to religion—casual, and taken for granted, but not as unimportant.
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