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1
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One that loved not wisely, but too well.

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Destructive Love / A5S2 Othello

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Thy bed, lust-stained, shall with lust’s blood be spotted

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Destructive Love / A4S2 Othello

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And when I love thee not chaos is come again (foreshadowing)

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Destructive Love / Othello A3S3

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To his honours and his valiant parts did I my soul and fortune consecrate

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Idealised Love / Desdemona A1S3

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Put out thy light

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Idealised Love A5S2 Othello

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That whiter skin of hers than snow and smooth as monumental alabaster

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Idealised Love A5S2 Othello

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The wine she drinks is made of grapes (just like all other women)

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Idealised Love Iago A2S1

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The riches of the ship…you men of Cyprus, let her have your knees!

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Idealised Love Cassio A2S1

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9
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I nothing, but to please his fantasy.

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Passive Love A3S3 Emilia

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I will not charm my tongue, I am bound to speak

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Passive Love A5S2 Emilia

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I hope my noble lord esteems me honest

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Passive Love A4S2 Desdemona

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Upon my knees, what doth your speech import?

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Passive Love A4S2 Desdemona

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Kill me tomorrow, let me live tonight!

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Passive Love A5S2 Desdemona

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14
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She loved me for the dangers I had passed and I love her that she did pity them.

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Romantic Love A1S3 Othello

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(O sees D) If she be false, O then heaven mocks itself, I’ll not believe’t.

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Romantic Love A3S3 Othello

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16
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I kissed thee ere I killed thee: no way but this, killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

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Romantic Love A5S2 Othello

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17
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Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away richer than all his tribe.

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Romantic Love A5S2 Othello

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18
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Nobody. I myself. Farewell. Commend me to my fair lord.

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Romantic Love / Passive love A5S2 Desdemona

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19
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Cold, cold, my girl, even like thy chastity.

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Romantic Love A5S2 Othello

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20
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I have but an hour of love, of worldly matter and direction to spend with thee.

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Romantic Love A1S3 Othello

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21
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It is a monster begot upon itself, born on itself.

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Jealousy Emilia A3S4

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It is the green eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on.

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Jealousy Iago A3S3

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23
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Is not this man jealous?

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Jealousy Emilia A3S4

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24
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I have a pain upon my forehead, here. (horns of cuckold)

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Jealousy Othello A3S3

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25
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I think the sun where he was born drew all such humours from him

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Jealousy Desdemona A3S3

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26
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prove my love a whore, be sure of it, give me the ocular proof

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Jealousy Othello A3S3

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27
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‘twixt my sheets he’s done my office A1S3 / I do suspect the lusty Moor hath leaped into my seat A2S1

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Jealousy Iago

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28
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My wife my wife! What wife? I have no wife

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Marriage Othello A5S2

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29
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I took you for that cunning whore of Venice that married with Othello.

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Marriage Othello A4S2

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30
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There’s many a beast then in a populous city, and many a civil monster.

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Marriage Iago A4S1

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31
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That there be women do abuse their husbands in such gross kind?

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Marriage Desdemona A4S2

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32
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Our general’s wife is now the general. A2S3 IAGO / Our great captain’s captain A2S1 CASSIO

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Marriage

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33
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That we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!

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Marriage Othello A3S3

34
Q

In Venice they do let God see the pranks they dare not show their husbands

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Marriage Iago A3S3

35
Q

I do think it is their husbands’ faults if wives do fall. /
Let husbands know their wives have sense like them /
Have not we affectations..and frailty, as men have? /

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Marriage Emilia A4S2

36
Q

Who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch?

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Marriage Emilia A4S2

37
Q

They are all but stomachs, and we all but food: They eat us hungrily, and when they are full they belch us.

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Marriage Emilia

38
Q

She shunned the wealthy, curled darlings of our nation A1S2

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Unrequited Love Brabantio

39
Q

My daughter is not for thee. A1S1

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Unrequited Love Brabantio

40
Q

It is silliness to live when to live is torment A1S3

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Unrequited Love Roderigo

41
Q

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell

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Revenge / Betrayal A4S2 Othello

42
Q

I’m glad at soul that I have no other child, for thy escape would teach me tyranny.

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Revenge / Betrayal A1S3 Brabantio

43
Q

If thou canst cuckold him, thou dost thyself a pleasure, me a sport.

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Revenge / Betrayal A1S3 Iago

44
Q

She did deceive her father, marrying you

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Revenge / Betrayal A3S3 Iago

45
Q

Against all rules of nature A1S3 BRAB / and yet how nature, erring from itself A3S3 OTHELLO

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Racism

46
Q

O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil!

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Racism A5S2 Emilia

47
Q

What delight shall she have to look upon the devil?

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Racism A2S1 Iago

48
Q

Her name, that was as fresh as Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black as mine own face.

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Context: Reputation A3S3 Othello

49
Q

An honourable murderer, if you will (honour killing)

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Context: Reputation A5S2 Othello

50
Q

She must die, else she’ll betray more men

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Context: Reputation A5S2 Othello

51
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Reputation, Reputation, Reputation

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Context: Reputation A2S3 Cassio

52
Q

The very elements of this warlike isle.

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Context: Setting A2S3 Iago

53
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My lord, this would not be believed in Venice

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Context: Setting A4S1 Lodovico

54
Q

Look to your house, your daughter and your bags!

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Context: Patriarchy A1S1 Iago

55
Q

An old black ram is tupping your white ewe! A1S1

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Unnatural / Sexual Love

56
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Your daughter covered with a Barbary horse A1S1

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Unnatural / Sexual Love

57
Q

An old black ram is tupping your white ewe!

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Unnatural / Sexual Love A1S1 Iago

58
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Your daughter covered with a Barbary horse

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Unnatural / Sexual Love A1S1 Iago

59
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Your daughter and the Moor are making the beast with two backs.

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Unnatural / Sexual Love A1S1 Iago

60
Q

She can turn, and turn A4S1 /
Damn her, lewd minx A3S3 /
Impudent strumpet! A4S2 /

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Unnatural / Sexual Love Othello

61
Q

She can turn, and turn A4S1 /
Damn her, lewd minx A3S3 /
Impudent strumpet! A4S2 /

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Sexual Love Othello

62
Q

If I be left behind, a moth of peace, and he go to war, the rites for which I love him are bereft me

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Sexual Love A1S3 Desdemona

63
Q

Behold her topped?

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Sexual Love A3S3 Iago

64
Q

He called her whore. A beggar in his drink could not have laid such terms upon his callat.

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Maternal love / Friendship A4S2 Emilia

65
Q

O lay me by my mistress’ side

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Maternal love / Friendship A5S2 Emilia

66
Q

If she be not honest, chaste and true there’s no man happy

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Maternal love / Friendship A4S2 Emilia

67
Q

I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear

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Evil A2S3 Iago

68
Q

The Moor’s abused by some most villainous knave

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Evil A4S2 Emilia

69
Q

O foul thief, where hast thou stowed my daughter

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Patriarchal/Familial love A1S2 Brabantio

70
Q

A maiden never bold, of spirit so still and quiet

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Patriarchal/Familial love A1S3 Brabantio

71
Q

I do perceive here a divided duty.

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Patriarchal/Familial love A1S3 Desdemona

72
Q

I will chop her into messes! Cuckold me!

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Madness in Love Othello A4S1

73
Q

Arise, black vengeance, from the hollow hell

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Madness in Love A3S3 Othello

74
Q

I’ll tear her all to pieces!

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Madness in Love A3S3 Othello

75
Q

Why gnaw you so your nether lip A5S2 /
I fear you, for your fatal then when your eyes roll so A5S2 /
Some bloody passion shakes your very frame A5S2

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Madness in Love Desdemona

76
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Goats and Monkeys! OTHELLO / Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys IAGO A3S3

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Madness in Love

77
Q

O monstrous! Monstrous! A3S3
O blood, blood, blood! A3S3
Confess! Handkerchief! O devil! A4S1

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Madness in Love Othello

78
Q

I see you’re moved A3S3 / I see, sir, you are eaten up with passion A3

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Madness in Love Iago

79
Q

He falls into a trance A4S1 (stage direction)

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Madness in Love Othello

80
Q

How shall I murder him, Iago? A4S1

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Madness in Love Othello

81
Q

A jealousy so strong that judgement cannot cure A2S1

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Madness in Love Iago