The Character and Signifigcanc

The Character and Signifigcance of Iago George Brandes (originally published in 1914) A manuscript preserved in the Record Office, of doubtful date, but probably copied from an authentic document, contains the following entry:-- The plaiers By the Kings Maties plaiers 1605 Hallamas Day being the mayd the plaies first of November. in the Banketing house att withall called the Moore of Venis. The Poets wch A play Shaxberd. Thus Othello was probably produced in the autumn …

…of Shakespeare's had bee so much of a monograph. He assuredly felt this, and with the impulse of the great artist to make his new work a complement and contrast to the immediately preceding one, he now sought and found the subject for that one of his tragedies which is least of all monograph, which grew into nothing less than the universal tragedy-- all the great woes of human life concentrated in one mighty symbol.