Othello A4 Flashcards
A4:1 - Othello: ‘Noses, ears and lips…
Confess! Handkerchief! O devil!’
A4:1 - Iago: ‘he foams at the mouth, and…
…breaks out to savage madness’
A4:1 - Bianca: ‘some minx’s…
…token’
A4:1 - Othello: ‘How shall I…
…murder him Iago?
A4:1 - Othello: ‘let her rot and perish…
…my heart is turned to stone’
A4:1 - Iago: ‘Do not it not with poison, …
…strangle her in her bed - even the bed she hath contaminated.’
A4:1 - Othello: Devil!…
…[striking her]’
A4:1 - Othello: ‘Each drop she falls…
…would prove a crocodile’
A4:1 - Lodovico: ‘Is this the noble Moor…
…the nature [of] whom passion could not shake?’
A4:2 - Emilia: ‘I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest…
…Lay down my soul at stake’
A4:2 - Othello: ‘Heaven truly knows…
…that thou art false as hell’
A4:2 - Othello: ‘would thou had’st…
…ne’er been born!’
A4:2 - Othello: ‘Impudent…
…strumpet.’
A4:2 - Othello: ‘that cunning…
…whore of Venice’
A4:2 - Emilia: ‘How do you, …
…my good lady?’
- Emilia ignores Othello’s attempt to dismiss her.
A4:2 - Emilia: ‘A beggar in his drink…
… / Could not have laid such terms upon his callat.’
A4:2 - Emilia: ‘some most villainous…
…knave.’
A4:2 - Desdemona: ‘His unkindness may defeat…
…my life but never taint my love’
A4:3 - Desdemona: ‘Even his stubbornness, …
…his checks, his frowns… have grace and favour.’
A4:3 - Des: My mother had a…
…maid called Barbary…he she loved proved mad’
A4:3 - Des: ‘She died singing it. …
…That song tonight / Will not go from my mind.’
A4:3 - Des: ‘Let nobody blame him…
…his scorn I approve.’
A4:3 - Des: ‘That there be women do abuse…
…their husbands in such gross kind?’
A4:3 - Des: ‘It is their husbands’ fault…
…if wives do fall’
A4:3- Emilia: ‘The world’s a huge thing: …
…it is a great price / For a small vice.’
- Almost mercenary.
A4:3 - Emilia: ‘Who would not make…
…her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch?’
- Mercenary.
Emilia: ‘Let husbands know / Their wives…
…have sense like them’ 4:3
- Sexual appetite/desires.
4:1 - Iago: ‘venial…
slip’…
A4:1 - Oth: ‘it comes o’er my memory…
…as doth the raven o’er the infected house’.
Oth: ‘She is protectress of her honour too…
… May she give that? 4:1
A4:1 - Iago: ‘many worthy and chaste dames…
…even thus, all guiltless, meet reproach.’
How does Cassio describe Bianca in A4:1?
a ‘customer’, a ‘caitiff’
I: ‘Or to be naked with her friend in bed … not meaning any harm?’
O: ‘Naked in bed, Iago, and not mean harm?’ 4,1
Riles him, provocation
SD: Just before Cassio enters, Othello ‘falls in…
…a trance’ 4,1
Iago: ‘Cassio of…
…Bianca’ 4,1
‘many worthy and chaste dames…
…even thus, all guiltless, meet reproach’ 4,1
I to Cas: ‘withdraw yourself a…
…little while’ 4,1
O to I: ‘Dost thou…
…mock me?’ 4,1
O to I: ‘O thou art wise…
…tis certain’ 4,1
I to O: ‘stand you a…
…while apart… do but encave yourself’ 4,1
Stage directing
I to O about Cassio: ‘I will make him tell…
…the tale anew, where, how, how oft, how long ago’ 4,1
Iago about Bianca: ‘it is a creature that…
…dotes on Cassio, as ‘tis the strumpet’s plague’ 4,1
Iago: ‘Othello shall go…
…mad’ 4,1
Othello to himself, observing I and Cas: ‘Now he tells how she plucked …
…him to my chamber’
Cassio about Bianca: ‘Alas, poor…
…caitiff’ 4,1
Cassio about Bianca: ‘Alas, poor rouge, I think…
…i’faith she loves me’ 4,1
Iago to Cassio as O looks on, SD: ‘[speaking…
…lower]’ 4,1
Cassio to Iago about Bianca, Othello thinks he’s talking about Des: ‘She is persuaded I will…
…marry her, out of her own love and flattery’ 4,1
