―He is, Stephen said. The boy of act one is the mature man of act five. All in all. In Cymbeline , in Othello he is bawd and cuckold. He acts and is acted on. Lover of an ideal or a perversion, like José he kills the real Carmen. His unremitting intellect is the hornmad Iago ceaselessly willing that the moor in him shall suffer.

―Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuck Mulligan clucked lewdly. O word of fear!

Dark dome received, reverbed.

―And what a character is Iago! undaunted John Eglinton exclaimed. When all is said Dumas fils (or is it Dumas père ?) is right. After God Shakespeare has created most.