Othello (disambiguation)
Othello (full title: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragic play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603.
Othello or Otello may also refer to:
People with the name
[edit]- Othello Henderson (born 1972), American football player
- Othello Hunter (born 1986), American-Liberian basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Otello Profazio (born 1934), Italian cantastorie and folk singer-songwriter
- Nunzio Otello Francesco Gioacchino (Born 1792), Napoleonic Neapolitan Mameluke of Joachim Murat
Places
[edit]Geography
[edit]- Othello, New Jersey, an unincorporated community
- Othello, Washington, a U.S. city
Buildings and structures
[edit]- Othello Air Force Station, a closed United States Air Force near Othello, Washington
- Othello Castle, Cyprus
- Othello High School, Othello, Washington
- Othello station, a Link light rail station in Seattle, Washington
- Othello Tunnels, rail tunnels (and nickname) of Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Films
[edit]- Otello (1906 film), an Italian silent film
- Othello (1922 film), a film starring Emil Jannings
- Othello (1951 film), a film starring Orson Welles
- Othello (1955 film), a Soviet film by Sergei Yutkevich
- Othello (1965 Australian film), a telefilm broadcast on the ABC as part of Wednesday Theatre
- Othello (1965 British film), a film starring Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smith
- Othello (1980 film), a film starring Yaphet Kotto
- Othello (1981 TV film), a TV adaptation starring Anthony Pedley and Anthony Hopkins
- The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, a 1981 film starring William Marshall and Ron Moody
- Otello (1986 film), a film by Franco Zeffirelli
- Othello (1990 film), a film starring Willard White and Ian McKellen
- Othello (1995 film), a film starring Laurence Fishburne and Kenneth Branagh
- Othello (2001 film), a made-for-television film starring Keeley Hawes and Eamonn Walker
- Othello (2017 film), an Assamese language drama film
Gaming
[edit]- Reversi, a board game better known as Othello
- Othello (2009 video game)
- Othello (video game), a 1988 NES game
- Computer Othello, computer architecture encompassing computer hardware and computer software capable of playing the game Othello
- Othello Quarterly, a U.S. magazine for the board game
- Othello Multivision, a cartridge-based video game console and Sega SG-1000 clone
Manga
[edit]- Othello (Satomi Ikezawa manga), a 2001–2004 shoujo manga
- Othello (Toui Hasumi manga), a 2007 manga
Music
[edit]- Otello (Rossini), an 1816 opera by Gioachino Rossini
- Otello, an 1887 opera by Giuseppe Verdi
- Othello (Dvořák), an 1892 concert overture by Antonín Dvořák
- "Othello" is the opening song on the Dance Hall Crashers' debut album of the same name (1990)
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- Othello (ballet), a ballet by Lar Lubovitch
- Othello (character), the protagonist of Shakespeare's 1603 play and Cinthio's story
- Othello (Orson Welles stage production) (1951)
- Othello (owarai), a Japanese comedy duo
- Othello (paintings), a series of paintings by Nabil Kanso
- "Un Capitano Moro" (English translation: "A Moorish Captain"), a story by Cinthio, first published in 1565, which Shakespeare adapted as a 1603 play
Brands and enterprises
[edit]- Otello Corporation, a Norwegian Internet company, formerly known as Opera Software ASA.
Ships
[edit]- Othello (1781 ship) or Ortello, a slave ship
- Othello (1786 ship), a slave ship
- List of ships named Othello
See also
[edit]- O (2001 film), a modern film by Tim Blake Nelson, adapted from Shakespeare's Othello
- Omkara (film), a 2006 Indian film adapted from Shakespeare's Othello
- Otelo (disambiguation)