Looking For The Moor

The Shakespeare Sessions by BBC

Jul 2, 201845:05Arts

Hugh Quarshie on Othello’s blackness. Is the character coherent? Is the play racist? Hugh Quarshie is a Ghanaian-born British actor. He is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and played Othello in Iqbal Khan's prod...

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