| “I am not what I am” | Iago A1S1Exodus – “I am that I am” |
| “Now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe” | Iago A1S1Urgency Playing on Brabantio’s fears – suspicion of ‘others’ |
| “thieves! thieves! look to your house, your daughter and your bags!” | A1S1Iago Women seen as objects |
| “oh heaven, how she got out?” | A1S1Brabantio Renaissance fatherLord CapuletVaughan – family was a microcosm for state |
| “let him do his spite” | Othello A122blank verse – dignifiedCalm, hadn’t yet let storm / iago get to him |
| “My services which I have done the signiory shall out tongue his complaints” | Othello A1S2Confident in himself |
| “I love the gentle Desdemona” | Othello A1S2 |
| “She is abused. Stol’n from me” | Brabantio A1S3 |
| “I won his daughter” | Othello A1S3 |
| “her father loved me” | Othello A1S3 |
| “I am hither to your daughter but he’s my husband and so much duty as my mother showed to you” | Desdemona A1S3 |
| “your son in law is more fair than black” | Duke A1S3 |
| “nor I” | Desdemona A1S3Reminded of Katherina from ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ |
| “Look to her moor. If thou hast eyes to see. She has deceived her father and may thee” | Brabantio Seed of doubt A1S3 |
| “My life upon her faith” | Othello A1S3 |
| “My sport and profit” | Iago A1S3Coleridge ‘motiveless malignity’ |
| “he’s done my office. I know not if it be true” | Iago A1S3Motiveless malignity Machiavellian villain |
| “will be as tenderly led by the nose as asses are” | Iago A1S3 |
| “Monstrous birth to worlds light” | Iago A1S3 – before storm |
| Storm significance | gets rid of threat of war – where Othello is comfortable Deux ex machina – isolates characters |
| “the desperate tempest” | Iago personified A2S1 |
| “for they were parted with foul and violent tempest” | A2S1 Foreshadowing |
| Cyprus | Associated with loveAssociated with danger / isolation due to war between Christians and Muslims over Mediterranean sea |
| “I have lost him on a dangerous sea” | ‘Valiant’ Othello lost A2S1 |
| “what tidings can you tell me of my lord?” | McGuire “natural instinct must surely be to go herself to the harbour” A2S1 |
| “I am not merry, but I do beguile” | Desdemona A2S1 |
| Amen to that sweet powers | Othello A2S1 |
| I must tell thee this. Desdemona is directly in love with him | AS21Mcguire “Iago shapes a persons vision of reality” |
| “wife for wife” | eye to an eyeIago A2S1 |
| “I’ll have our Michael Cassio on the hip” | Iago A2S1 |
| “Iago is most honest” | A2S3 |
| “He hath not yet made wanton the night with her” | Iago A2S3″beast with two backs” a lie |
| “What an eye she has” | Iago A2S3 |
| I’ll do it but it dislikes me | CassioS2S3 |
| I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth than it should do offence to Michael Cassio | Iago A2S3 |
| When Devils will he blackest sins put on they do suggest at first with heavenly shows | A2S3 |
| Shall rather die than give thy cause away | Desdemona A3S3 |
| When I love thee not chaos is come | Othello A3S3 |
| I know thou’st full of love and honesty | Othello A3S3 |
| Look to your wife | Iago A3S3 Links to Brabantio |
| I would not have your free and noble nature abused | Ironic A3S3 |
| In Venice they do let got see their pranks they dare not show their husbands | Ania Loomba – Venice was repeatedly seen as a city full of whores |
| (aside) why did I marry? | A3S3 |
| Haply, for I am black | A3S3 |
| She is gone, I am abused | Ironic not abused by D but IA3S3 |
| Forked plague | Cuckolded man |
| Kahn | it shows a husband becoming convinced of the veracity of fears he already harbored about women” |
| This was her first remembrance from the moor | Emilia A3S3 |
| The moor already changes with my poison | Iago A3S3 |
| Farewell! Othello’s occupation is gone | Cares only about that |
| her name, was fresh as Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black as my own face | Othello A3S3Good name importantin 1600 90% defamation cases about womans sexual reputation |
| I had rather lost my purse full of crusadoes | A3S4 |
| It is not lost Lend me thy handkerchief | A3S3 Sam Mendes “desdemona is an active participant in the drama rather than an insipid feeble girl”French “clinch the case against her”Newman “posession of a lady’s handkerchief was considered proof of adultery” |
| “a sweet woman””let her rot and perish” | one line apart aristotle fatal flaw philips believes othello’s fatal flaw is ‘to question his own judgement’ |
| ‘i will chop her into masses’ | othello – becoming his stereotype |
| get me some poison iago | ironic |
| the justice of it pleases | is he justified? |
| this is a subtle wh0re | madonna and wh0re – one or other |
| it is my wretched fortune | misogyny bad luck |
| lay down my soul at stake | emilia stands up for her |
| we must not displease him | changes |
| willows | represent lossophelia falls out willow tree |
| o inhumane dog | ironic |
| i am no strumpet | bianca |
| yes she must die, else she’ll betray more men | justification |
| i would not kill thy unprepared spirit | othello caring? |
| i am bound to speak tis proper to obey him but not now | emilia |
| bed | tragedy in jacobean dramatis pity she’s a wh0re |
| when i have plucked thy rose i cannot give it vital growth | othello |
Othello
September 6, 2019