{"id":4244,"date":"2011-04-11T13:13:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T18:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2011-04-11T13:13:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T18:13:55","slug":"bleg-bleg-otelloothello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4244","title":{"rendered":"Bleg Bleg: Otello\/Othello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend my wife and I witnessed a performance by Muti and the CSO of Verdi&#8217;s <em>Otello<\/em>. Superlatives fail me (that is I can&#8217;t express in words adequately (with superlatives) how the performance was received by myself).<\/p>\n<p>However, I have not read (the Shakespeare) or heard or read much on the ethics of the Iago\/Othello\/Desdemona, uhm, kerfuffle. Any recommendations for good commentary by people of insight? One co-worker noted that the &#8220;Venetian&#8221; Shakespeare plays get short shift in the modern world, because they steer to close to unsafe waters (Shylock as Jew and Othello as Moor (Black)).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow your recommendations would be appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend my wife and I witnessed a performance by Muti and the CSO of Verdi&#8217;s Otello. Superlatives fail me (that is I can&#8217;t express in words adequately (with superlatives) how the performance was received by myself). However, I have not read (the Shakespeare) or heard or read much on the ethics of the Iago\/Othello\/Desdemona, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marko","category-offbeat-questions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}