The Problem Of Iago, And How Daniel Craig Solves It

“In recent productions he has been rendered modern (which is to say, not purely evil in the original, metaphysical sense) through complex psychological contrivances” – traumatized soldier, or repressed homosexual, or morbidly jealous husband, and so on. “Daniel Craig’s Iago is not a psychopath, or a victim of trauma, or a man deluded about right and wrong. He makes a choice.”