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iago
/iˈɑɡoʊ/
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What does iago mean?
proper noun
- A male given name.
- The villain of William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello; any similar villain or deceitful underling.
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Shakespeare got nearer to what we may term the domestic as opposed to the political criminal when he created Iago.
I expect that Shakespeare devised Iago with a gusto which he never knew when, weaving moonbeams with his fancy, he imagined Desdemona.
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O my sweet, I prattle out of fashion, and I dote In mine own comforts.—I prithee, good Iago, Go to the bay and disembark my coffers.
And again, after a night of Salvini: ‘I do not suppose any one with feelings could sit out Othello, if Iago and Desdemona were acted.’
Like Iago in the play, he "knows his price, and, by the faith of man, that he is worth no worse a place" than that which he occupies.