Edmund Kean as Othello at Drury Lane, 1800.

"Edmund Kean, regarded as the nineteenth century's most memorable Moor, significantly departed from a black-faced Othello when he opened at Drury Lane in 1814 . . . Kean abandoned black-face for light brown make-up . . . claiming that Othello must be a tawny Moor rather than a black African." (Kolin, 31-2) Lithograph print, courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum.