But Celta, who are deep in relegation trouble, pulled level just two minutes later when Iago Aspas' shot took a deflection off Portuguese defender Pepe and squirmed past Diego Lopez.

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Iago, Desdemona and everyone else is black.

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Think of fiction's best drawn, most entertaining characters - Chaucer's Pardoner, Shakespeare's Iago, every third man and woman in Jane Austen, every other man and woman in Dickens - and the H-word is there, satisfyingly to be unmasked.

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More stagey, less technically sophisticated than their contemporary counterparts, these period pieces feature names like Ian McKellen, Clive Swift, Diana Rigg and Prunella Scales in minor roles, and commanding performances from Richard Johnson as Antony and Othello (to a chilling Iago from the young Ian Holm).

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' - Iago claims no influences, giving the impression that he has thought up his actions all by himself, and certainly, given the messy execution he is to undergo after the end of the play, he has failed to follow Machiavelli's advice to keep power at others' expense.

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