Othello

• Iago- “turn her virtues to pitch”
• Iago - “plague him with flies”
• Iago - “pour pestilence into thine ear”
• Iago - ensnare a fly as great as Cassio
• Iago- Cassio with my knightcap too
• Iago - I hate the moor
• Iago - Work on my medicine
• Iago - I follow him to serve my turn upon him
• Iago - all guiltless meet reproach
• Iago - I know my price
• Iago - but if I give my wife a handkerchief-
• Iago - I am not what I am
• Iago - she did deceive her father marrying you
• They do let God see the pranks they hide from their husbands - Iago
• Preferment goes by the letter and affection not by old gradation - Iago
• Mere prattle without practice - Iago
• Beware my Lord of the green eyed monster - Iago
• Great Arithmetician
• Critic - Iago

  iago is a “jealous, resentful individual spinning a more reasonable and justifiable story to explain why he has been passed over”
• Alice Sherman


  ”Some argue that it is Othello’s own insecurities stemming from his otherness that allows him to regress rapidly“
• Critic’s


  ”Race never seems to be far away from the forefront of both the audience and Othello’s mind”
• “He remains an outsider and feels the need to dramatise his past history”
• “Underlying self doubt”
• Sharman- “[Othello’s] Fierce love for Desdemona becomes the ‘poisonous mineral’ that gnaws at his self confidence“
• Othello - “Rude I am in speech”
• Othello - ”keep up your bright swords for the dew will rust them”
• Othello - ”if it were my cue to fight I should have known it without a prompter”
• Othello - “she loved me for the dangers I had passed”
• Othello - ”my parts, my title and my perfect soul”
• Othello - “Are we turned Turks”
• Othello - ”my fair warrior”
• Othello - ”my blood begins my safer guides to rule”
• Othello - “never more be officer of mine”
• Othello - “from my own weak merits”
• Othello - “Desdemona’s honest” but contracts how he feels later on in the play
• Othello - ”Farewell the tranquil mind”
• Othello - “give me the ocular proof”
• Othello - ”this hand is moist my lady”
• Othello - “Lie with her? Lie on her?…. Zounds“

  Starting to Mirror Iago
• Act 4 Othello is reduced structurally as he is now a 'weak and feeble man'