Act 3 Scene 1 quotes Flashcards
CASSIO to musicians
“play here; I will content your pains;
something that’s brief; and bid ‘Good morrow, general’.”
CLOWN to musicians
“O, thereby hangs a
tail.”
Axample of Clown making jokes for comic relief. Tail-like penis - saying instruments are like penises.
CLOWN to musicians
“the general so likes your music that he
desires you for love’s sake to make no more noise with it.”
Othello angry?
CASSIO to Clown
“Prithee keep up thy
quillets. There’s a poor piece of gold for thee.”
Reinforces that Cassio’s of higher class and how he dislikes the crude jokes.
CLOWN to Cassio about Emilia
“She is stirring sir. If she will
stir hither, I shall seem to notify unto her.”
Sexual innuendo - stirring = having sex. Clown as comic relief and views of women??
CASSIO to Iago
“In happy time,
Iago.”
IAGO to Cassio
“You have not been
abed then?”
Shows how Cassio hasn’t been able to fall asleep since the drunken brawl, making him more vulnerable to Iago’s machinations.
CASSIO to Iago
“I have made bold, Iago, to send
in to your wife; my suit to her is that she will to virtuous Desdemona procure me some access.”
IAGO to Cassio
“I’ll send her
to you presently.”
IAGO to Cassio
“I’ll devise a mean
to draw the Moor out of the way, that your converse and business may be more free.”
CASSIO about Iago
“I never knew a
Florentine more kind and honest.”
EMILIA to Cassio
“but all will
sure be well.”
- tragic
EMILIA
“The general and his wife are talking of it,
and she speaks for you stoutly.”
EMILIA to Cassio (about why Othello isn’t taking him back)
“he you hurt is of great fame in Cyprus,
and great affinity, and that in wholesome wisdom he might not but refuse you.”
EMILIA to Cassio about Othello
“he protests he loves
you, and needs no other suitor but his likings to take the safest occasion by the front to bring you in again.”
