Broadway Stars Broadway Stars

Eileen Atkins as Emilia in Othello: 'If wives do fall' " video by Dan Susman, Jess Gormley, Pascal Wyse, Chris Wiegand, Emma John and Liese Spencer

To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Eileen Atkins speaks Emilia's lines from Othello, act IV scene 3. Emilia, Iago's wife, counsels Desdemona on marriage and fidelity Read the full text for this speechRead more about Shakespeare SolosMichael Billington on the video: 'a feminist wake-up call to errant men'Ellen Terry With Eileen At…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AM on February 1, 2016

« Back to BroadwayStars