The Iago Problem

The Iago Problem:

I like the idea of Daniel Craig playing an Iago who’s not explained by psychological platitudes, so I liked this piece, though the author is a bit too forgiving of Othello for my taste. I think Iago is the greatest villain in all of literature. As I wrote in this essay:

A far more frightening villain than Lecter—indeed, I would say a more frightening villain than any other in fiction—is Iago, the protagonist of Shakespeare’s Othello, one of the most perfect tales of noir. (De...