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Othello The Tragedy Lives On

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  Othello: The Tragedy Lives On
       Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is one of the greatest stories in all of history. It is a tale that anyone can relate to whether he or she lived in the seventeenth century or in the twenty-first century. This play is "about as close as Shakespeare gets to classical tragedy" (McCulloch and Carey, 87). Shakespeare got this great idea for a tragedy from a sixteenth century writer known as Cinthio and his story "Un Capitano Moro" from which Shakespeare takes the plot and intensifies the level of drama. Much of the ideas and controversy that are found in these plays are similar to many of those that are in today's entertainment. This tale of dramatic irony is a story like only Shakespeare can tell, but one that can be modernized and shared with all those who have forgotten the great Shakespeare. Tim Blake Nelson took the tragedy of Othello and gave it a modern twist in his creation of the movie "O" that takes the plot of Othello and works it into a modern day prep school. Both of these works grasp the reader because the events could all to easily become a reality as Iago says, "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!/ It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock/ The meat it feeds on." Anyone can fall in love, and anyone can become jealous or be deceived, as these two versions of the same tragic story will prove...