But Shakespeare's great trick, he suggests, is to make the audience complicit in Iago's villainy.
We have sufficient villainy and not enough heroism.
Although Moriarty's evil villainy is based on a character from another era, this series was set in the present day and such outdated images about mental health can damage and misinform", the report states.
"If ever a face was made for villainy, it's Bill Nighy's," I continue.
Too often in Othello, Iago's motives for doing down his former comrade can be obscure, but Kinnear insists his villainy is explicable.
And now it's about to get even better as she achieves the greatest villainy yet attempted on Doctor Who: she plays a banker".
Republicans insist that the fault lies with Barack Obama for letting Iran dominate Iraq and failing to curb the villainy of Syria's Bashar Assad.In fact there is more than enough blame to go round.
Thankfully, researchers are beginning to offer explanations in a series of recent papers.One debate concerns the villainy of glucose, which is found in starches, and fructose, found in fruits, table sugar and, not surprisingly, high-fructose corn syrup.
