Other Versions of The Character
In looser adaptations of Othello, the "Iago" character is typically given a different name, but has been more or less the same as Shakespeare's. Prominent examples include Rossini's opera Otello's character "Jago", Christopher Eccleston as "Ben Jago" (a corrupt police detective) in a 2001 adaptation set in a London police department, Josh Hartnett as "Hugo" (a steroid-addicted teenager) in 2001's O, which sets the play in a contemporary high school, Lal as Komali Paniyan in Jayaraaj's Malayalam movie Kaliyattam (English: The Play of God) and Saif Ali Khan as Ishwar "Langda" Tyagi in Vishal Bharadwaj's Omkara, set in Uttar Pradesh, India.
David Snodin's novel Iago, published in January 2012, hypothesizes as to what may have happened to Iago had he escaped after being imprisoned. Nicole Galland's novel I, Iago, published in April 2012, speculates an elaborate backstory in which Iago invents intricate moral justifications for his ambition and vengeance.
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