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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20050109
Author:MATTHEW GILBERT

Anthony Trollope is primarily known as a Victorian novelist able to both satirize and anatomize the worlds of politics, organized religion, and business. But he was also adept at portraying the intimate obsessions of men and women at psychological extremes. "He Knew He Was Right," which he based in part on Shakespeare's "Othello," is his compelling portrait of a man whose reason is ripped apart by jealousy when he finds his wife flirting with a colonel. Tonight at 9 on Ch. 2, PBS's "Masterpiece Theatre" begins its two- part adaptation of the 1869 novel.

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