How do you solve a problem like Iago? (Part I)
Envy (Graham Abbey) meets jealousy (Dion Johnstone) in the Stratford Festival's Othello.Shakespeare's tragedies often set Aristotle on his ear, one way or another. Taken together, they amount to a conscious attempt to match and then out-match the classical tradition; but in the process of extending the idea of classic "tragedy," the Bard often undermines or subverts its classic precepts. Not that ou…