And that Negroid painting is NOT what a Portuguese "BLACKAMOOR" would have looked like!
Re Shakespeare and "OTHELLO"...Yes, Othello was a "Blackamoor"; however, that term refers to people from Northern Africa; dark skinned but NOT Negroids!
Yes, Othello should be played as a North African. Edwin Booth, the greatest 19th century American actor, played him as an Arab and was fairly successful (better as Iago!) I think Paul Robson and Olivier’s portrait of him as practically an African-American with a serious weight problem has influenced actors in the 20th and 21 centuries...
Talking to my actor-husband, he said all actors playing Othello must now be born black, not born Arab or anything else. He speaks not as a politically-correct person but as a actor/producer who would sadly not touch Othello today.