Early Modern Drama: WILLIAM Shakespeare’s Othello : Early Modern Drama: WILLIAM Shakespeare’s Othello Why Shakespeare?
Othello : Othello For, sir,It is as sure as you are Roderigo,Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago:In following him, I follow but myself;Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,But seeming so, for my peculiar end:For when my outward action doth demonstrateThe native act and figure of my heartIn compliment extern, 'tis not long afterBut I will wear my heart upon my sleeveFor daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
[Iago, act I, scene i, ll. 55-65]
Othello : Othello Even now, now, very now, an old black ramIs tupping your white ewe.
[Iago, act I, scene i, ll. 88-89]
‘Swounds, sir, you are one of those that will notserve God, if the devil bid you. Because we come todo you service and you think we are ruffians, you'llhave your daughter covered with a Barbary horse;you'll have your nephews neigh to you; you'll havecoursers for cousins and gennets for germans.[Iago, act I, scene i, ll. 110-115]
Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.
[Iago, act I, scene i, ll. 116-17]
Othello : Othello Whoe'er he be that in this foul proceedingHath thus beguiled your daughter of herselfAnd you of her, the bloody book of lawYou shall yourself read in the bitter letterAfter your own sense, yea, though our proper sonStood in your action.
[Duke, Act I, scene iii, ll. 65-70]
I think this tale would win my daughter too.Good Brabantio,Take up this mangled matter at the best:Men do their broken weapons rather useThan their bare hands.[Duke, Act I, scene iii, ll. 170-174]
Othello : Othello The Turk with a most mighty preparation makes for Cyprus. Othello, the fortitude of the place is best known to you; and though we have there a substitute of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects, throws a more safervoice on you…
[Duke, Act I, scene iii, 220-224]
Othello : Othello These Moors are changeable intheir wills: fill thy purse with money -- the foodthat to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall beto him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. She mustchange for youth: when she is sated with his body,she will find the error of her choice: she musthave change, she must: therefore put money in thypurse. If thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it amore delicate way than drowning. Make all the moneythou canst: if sanctimony and a frail vow betwixtan erring barbarian and a supersubtle Venetian nottoo hard for my wits and all the tribe of hell, thoushalt enjoy her; therefore make money.
[Iago, Act I, scene iii, ll. 339-349]
Literatura inglesa IVEarly Modern Drama: W. Shakespeare’s Othello : Literatura inglesa IVEarly Modern Drama: W. Shakespeare’s Othello I hate the Moor;And it is thought abroad, that 'twixt my sheetsHe has done my office: I know not if 't be true;But I, for mere suspicion in that kind, will do as if for surety.
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The Moor is of a free and open nature,That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,And will as tenderly be led by the noseAs asses are.
[Iago, act I, scene iii, ll. 368-384]
Slide 8 : That Cassio loves her, I do well believe it;That she loves him, 'tis apt and of great credit:The Moor, howbeit that I endure him not,Is of a constant, loving, noble nature,And I dare think he'll prove to DesdemonaA most dear husband. Now, I do love her too;Not out of absolute lust, though peradventureI stand accountant for as great a sin,But partly led to diet my revenge,For that I do suspect the lusty MoorHath leap'd into my seat; the thought whereofDoth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards;And nothing can or shall content my soul
Othello : Othello Till I am even'd with him, wife for wife,Or failing so, yet that I put the MoorAt least into a jealousy so strongThat judgment cannot cure. Which thing to do,If this poor trash of Venice, whom I traceFor his quick hunting, stand the putting on,I'll have our Michael Cassio on the hip,Abuse him to the Moor in the rank garb--For I fear Cassio with my night-cap too--Make the Moor thank me, love me and reward me.For making him egregiously an assAnd practising upon his peace and quietEven to madness. 'Tis here, but yet confused:Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.[Iago, Act II, scene ii, ll. 273-299]
Othello : Othello CASSIO Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part ofmyself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation,Iago, my reputation!IAGO As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most falseimposition: oft got without merit, and lost withoutdeserving: you have lost no reputation at all,unless you repute yourself such a loser.
[Act II, scene iii, ll. 246-253]
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Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,Is the immediate jewel of their souls:Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands:But he that filches from me my good nameRobs me of that which not enriches himAnd makes me poor indeed
[Iago to Othello, Act III, scene iii, 160-166]
Othello : Othello Exit CASSIO
Enter OTHELLO and IAGO
IAGO Ha! I like not that.OTHELLO What dost thou say?IAGO Nothing, my lord: or if--I know not what.OTHELLO Was not that Cassio parted from my wife?IAGO Cassio, my lord! No, sure, I cannot think it,That he would steal away so guilty-like,Seeing you coming.
[Act III, scene iii, 33-39 (temptation scene)]
Othello : Othello IAGO My noble lord--OTHELLO What dost thou say, Iago?IAGO Did Michael Cassio, when you woo'd my lady,Know of your love?OTHELLO He did, from first to last: why dost thou ask?IAGO But for a satisfaction of my thought;No further harm.OTHELLO Why of thy thought, Iago?IAGO I did not think he had been acquainted with her.OTHELLO O, yes; and went between us very oft.IAGO Indeed!
Othello : Othello OTHELLO Indeed! ay, indeed: discern'st thou aught in that?Is he not honest?IAGO Honest, my lord!OTHELLO Honest! ay, honest.IAGO My lord, for aught I know.OTHELLO What dost thou think?IAGO Think, my lord!OTHELLO Think, my lord!By heaven, he echoes me,As if there were some monster in his thoughtToo hideous to be shown. Thou dost mean something:[Act III, scene iii, 94-112 (temptation scene)]
Othello : Othello IAGO I know our country disposition well;In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks
They dare not show their husbands; their best conscience
Is not to leave't undone, but keep't unknown.…
OTHELLO And yet, how nature erring from itself,--IAGO Ay, there's the point: as--to be bold with you--Not to affect many proposed matchesOf her own clime, complexion, and degree,Whereto we see in all things nature tends--Foh! one may smell in such a will most rank,Foul disproportion thoughts unnatural.But pardon me; I do not in positionDistinctly speak of her; though I may fearHer will, recoiling to her better judgment,May fall to match you with her country formsAnd happily repent.[Act III, scene iii, 205-208; 232-243 (temptation scene)]
Othello : Othello If she be false, O, then heaven mocks itself!I'll not believe't.[Othello, Act III, scene iii, ll. 282-283]
[Taking Iago by the throat] Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore,Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof;Or, by the worth of mine eternal soul,Thou hadst been better have been born a dogThan answer my wak'd wrath.
[Othello, act III, scene iii, ll. 364-368]
Othello : Othello DESDEMONA Why do you speak so faintly? Are you not well?OTHELLO I have a pain upon my forehead here.[Act III, scene iii, 287-288]
IAGO Will you think so?OTHELLO Think so, Iago!IAGO What,To kiss in private?OTHELLO An unauthorized kiss.IAGO Or to be naked with her friend in bedAn hour or more, not meaning any harm?OTHELLO Naked in bed, Iago, and not mean harm![Act IV, scene i, ll. 1-5]
Othello : Othello That handkerchiefDid an Egyptian to my mother give;She was a charmer, and could almost readThe thoughts of people: she told her, whileshe kept it,'Twould make her amiable and subdue my fatherEntirely to her love, but if she lost itOr made gift of it, my father's eyeShould hold her loathed and his spirits should huntAfter new fancies: she, dying, gave it me;And bid me, when my fate would have me wive,To give it her. I did so: and take heed on't;Make it a darling like your precious eye;To lose't or give't away were such perditionAs nothing else could match.[Othello, Act III, scene iv, 53-66]
Some Quotes from Othello : Some Quotes from Othello DESDEMONA I have heard it said so. O, these men, these men!Dost thou in conscience think,--tell me, Emilia,--That there be women do abuse their husbandsIn such gross kind?EMILIA There be some such, no question.DESDEMONA Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?EMILIA Why, would not you?DESDEMONA No, by this heavenly light!EMILIA Nor I neither by this heavenly light;I might do't as well i' the dark.DESDEMONA Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?EMILIA The world's a huge thing: it is a great price.For a small vice.DESDEMONA In troth, I think thou wouldst not.[…]
Othello : Othello DESDEMONA I do not think there is any such woman.EMILIA Yes, a dozen; and as many to the vantage as wouldstore the world they played for.But I do think it is their husbands' faultsIf wives do fall: say that they slack their duties,And pour our treasures into foreign laps,Or else break out in peevish jealousies,Throwing restraint upon us; or say they strike us,Or scant our former having in despite;Why, we have galls, and though we have some grace,Yet have we some revenge. Let husbands knowTheir wives have sense like them: they see and smellAnd have their palates both for sweet and sour,As husbands have. What is it that they doWhen they change us for others? Is it sport?I think it is: and doth affection breed it?I think it doth: is't frailty that thus errs?It is so too: and have not we affections,Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?Then let them use us well: else let them know,The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.
Othello : Othello Demand me nothing: what you know, you know:From this time forth I never will speak word.
[Iago, Act V, scene ii, ll. 309-310]
Othello : Othello LODOVICO Where is this rash and most unfortunate man?OTHELLO That's he that was Othello: here I am.[Act V, scene ii, ll. 289-290]
LODOVICO O thou Othello, thou wert once so good,Fall'n in the practise of a damned slave,What shall be said to thee?OTHELLO Why, any thing:An honourable murderer, if you will;For nought I did in hate, but all in honour.[Act V, scene ii, ll. 297-302]
Othello : Othello Soft you; a word or two before you go.I have done the state some service, and they know't.No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speakOf one that loved not wisely but too well;Of one not easily jealous, but being wroughtPerplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand,Like the base Indian [Iudean], threw a pearl awayRicher than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,Albeit unused to the melting mood,Drop tears as fast as the Arabian treesTheir medicinal gum. Set you down this;
Othello : Othello And say besides, that in Aleppo once,Where a malignant and a turban'd TurkBeat a Venetian and traduced the state,I took by the throat the circumcised dog,And smote him, thus.Stabs himself
[Othello, act V, scene ii, 349-365]