Iago Flashcards
Iago 1.1
‘I am not what I am’
‘I do hate him as I do hell pains’
Iago 1.2
‘I lack iniquity sometimes to do me service’
Iago 1.3
‘Put money in thy purse’ — talks about R’s love for Desdemona
Soliloquy - ‘he’s done my office. I know not if’t be true / But I, for mere suspicion in that kind, /will do as if for surety’
‘Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light’
Iago 2.1
‘The great contention of the sea and skies/ parted our fellowship’ - Cassio
‘Players in your housewifery, and housewives in your bed’
‘She puts her tongue a little in her heart / and chides with thinking’
‘I’ll set down the pegs that make this music’ - aside
Soliloquy - ‘the moor… is of a constant, loving and noble nature’
‘Put the moor into a jealousy so strong/ that judgment cannot cure’
Iago 2.3
‘She is sport for Jove’
Soliloquy — ‘now my sick fool roderigo’
‘Am I to put our Cassio in some action’
‘I had rather have this tongue out from my mouth/ than it should do offence to Michael Cassio’
‘And what’s he then that says I pay the villain,’
Iago 3.3
‘O beware my lord of jealousy; / it is the green eyed monster which doth mock/ the meat it feeds on’
‘It is a common thing—‘ ‘ha?’ ‘To have a foolish wife’
‘The moor already changes with my poison’
‘I see, sir, you are eaten up with passion’
‘In sleep I heard him say, ‘sweet Desdemona,/ let us be wary, let us hide our loves’
Iago 4.1
‘Or to be naked with her friend in bed’
‘Her honour is an essence that’s not seen’
Othello’s trance
‘Work on, /my medicine work!’
‘Do it not with passion, strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated’
Iago 4.2
Desdemona confides in Iago
‘What should I do to win my lord again?’ — d
Iago 5.1
Iago conceives an a Bush of Cassio to Roderigo
Iago from behind wounds Cassio in the leg
Stabs roderigo
‘Kill men i’ th’ dark?’
‘this is the fruits of whoring’
Iago 5.2
‘From this time forth I never will speak word’
Iago 3.2
‘These letters give, Iago, to the pilots’
