Thank you to Murray Biggs for returning to provide our introduction to Othello:
Murray Biggs was born in England, raised in South Africa, and educated there and at Oxford. In 1986, after ten years’ teaching at MIT, he moved to Yale where he is now a semi-retired professor of English, Theater, and Film. He has published some 30 articles, many exploring the relations between text and performance, and directed over 40 stage productions, mostly with undergraduates, including 16 plays by Shakespeare, three of them twice. He lectures around the country on various aspects of drama.
More personally, Murray is my college professor and dear friend. Deepest thanks to him for providing another introductory video to the Shakespeare 2020 Project.
Many thanks, also, to my friend Joey Bianco of Whim Wham for the animated video elements.
As always, an enlightening introduction by Professor Biggs!
Thanks to you Ian
And thank you Murray.
for a just and eloquent account of the play. I think it is 65 years ago this year that you and I first met in Grahamstown.
All the best,
Tony
Golly, gonna be tough to bite my tongue on making this political. But Prof. Biggs has laid out the facts clearly, so no need to comment further. I will say Kudos that he was an Humanities prof at MIT. I was a grad student (Chemistry, Course V) in the 80s, and always wondered how humanities professors threaded that needle.
Um — I meant NOT making this political.
Wonderful introduction, once again! Thank you to Prof. Biggs and to Ian for organizing these. I love your ending comment…looking forward to diving into “Othello” in all its complexity.
Excellent introduction!
How can I register for whatever courses Dr. Biggs is teaching?!?!?
A sage introduction …
Really awesome. Looking forward to reading this play (while super behind on the Sonnets hehe)!