(O)thello (I)ago (D)esdemona
(C)assio (E)milia (B)ianca
(Br)abantio (R)oderigo
(Du)ke of Venice (M)ontano
(L)odovico
A1S1
● Roderigo and Iago discuss their hatred of unworthy Cassio and savage Othello
● They reveal to Brabantio that Othello has married Desdemona
∙ [Venice at night. A street.] ∙ (I) the devil will make a grandsire out
∙ (R) Iago, who hast my purse as if the of you
strings were thine ∙ (I) your daughter covered with a
∙ (I) S’blood Barbary horse
∙ (I) pride and purposes … mere prattle ∙ (I) your daughter and the Moor are
without practice … counter-caster making the beast with two backs
∙ (I) I am not what I am ∙ (Br) Thou art a villain
∙ (I) thick-lips ∙ (I) the gross clasps of the lascivious
∙ (I) Thieves, thieves, thieves! Look to Moor
your house, your daughter, and your ∙ (I) an extravagant and wheeling
bags! stranger
∙ [Enter Brabantio at a window above] ∙ (Br) Light, I say, light!
… [Enter, below, Brabantio] ∙ (I) I do hate his as I hate hell-pains
∙ (I) Zounds, sir, you’re robbed ∙ (I) the property of youth and
∙ (I) an old black ram is tupping your maidenhood may be abused
white ewe! ∙ (Br) O, that you had had her
A1S2
● Iago warns Othello that Brabantio will attempt to force a divorce between him and Desdemona
● Othello is summoned by the Duke of Venice to court to discuss the Turkish war
● Brabantio accosts Othello, who calmly resolves the situation
● Brabantio decides to bring his cause before the Duke
∙ (I) And spoke such scurvy and ∙ (Br) O thou foul thief, where has thou
provoking terms against your honour stowed my daughter?
∙ (O) Let him do his spite; My services … ∙ (Br) Damned as thou art, thou hast
shall out-tongue his complaints enchanted her
∙ (O) I fetch my life and being from men ∙ (Br) she in chains of magic … foul
of royal siege charms … drugs or minerals
∙ (O) I love the gentle Desdemona ∙ (Br) a maid so tender, fair and happy,
∙ (O) My parts, my title and my perfect so opposite to a marriage she
soul shall manifest me rightly shunned the wealthy curled darlings
∙ (I) By Janus of our nation, would ever have …
∙ (I) He tonight hath boarded a land run from her guardage to the sooty
carack … lawful prize bosom of such a thing as thou – to
∙ (O) Keep up your bright swords fear, not to delight
∙ (Br) Mine’s not an idle cause
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, A1S3
● The military meeting is disrupted by Brabantio’s fury at the secret marriage of his daughter
● Othello defends their union, and invites Desdemona to do the same, winning over the Duke
● Roderigo expresses his devastation surrounding his unrequited love
● Iago instructs him to reject pathetic emotions, and plots to incite the downfall of Othello
∙ (Du) Valiant Othello ∙ My heart’s subdued even to
∙ (Br) my particular grief is of so flood- the very quality of my lord
gate and o’erbearing nature that it ∙ (D) I saw Othello’s visage in his mind
engluts and swallows other sorrows ∙ (D) honours … valiant … consecrate …
∙ (Br) My daughter! O my daughter! rites … heaven … light-winged toys of
(All) Dead? feathered Cupid
∙ (Br) She is abused, stol’n … corrupted ∙ (D) I therefore beg it not to please the
by spells and medicines palate of my appetite
∙ (O) Rude I am in my speech ∙ (Du) Your son-in-law is far more fair
∙ (O) a round unvarnished tale than black
∙ (O) I won his daughter ∙ (Br) She has deceived her father, and
∙ (Br) A maiden never bold; of spirit so may thee
still and quiet … to fall in love with ∙ (O) My life upon her faith
what she feared to look on? ∙ (R) I will incontinently drown myself
∙ (Br) Against all rules of nature ∙ (I) ‘Virtue’? A fig! ‘Tis in ourselves …
∙ (Br) practices of cunning hell Our bodies are gardens, to the which
∙ (O) let her speak of me before her our wills are gardeners
father … let her witness it ∙ (I) the blood and baseness of our
∙ (O) This to hear would Desdemona natures … we have reason to cool our
seriously incline … She’d come again, raging motions, our carnal stings, our
and with a greedy ear unbitted lusts … It is merely a lust of
∙ (O) She gave me for my pains a world the blood and a permission of the will.
of sighs … she wished that heaven had Come, be a man. Drown thyself?
made her such a man Drown cats and blind puppies
∙ (Du) this tale would win my daughter ∙ (I) put money in they purse
∙ (D) I do perceive here a divided duty. ∙ (I) luscious as locusts … bitter as
To you I am bound colonquintida
∙ (D) duty as my mother showed … Due ∙ (I) when she is sated with his body,
to the Moor my lord she will find the error of her choice
∙ (Br) I had rather adopt a child than ∙ (I) a frail vow betwixt an erring
get it … For your sake, jewel, I am barbarian and a supersubtle Venetian
glad at soul I have no other child; for be not too hard for my wits and all
thy escape would teach me tyranny, the tribe of hell
to hang clogs on ‘em ∙ (I) The Moor is of a free and open
∙ (O) Most humbly … I crave fit nature, that thinks men honest that
disposition for my wife but seem to be so, and will as tenderly
∙ (D) trumpet to the world be led by th’ nose as asses are
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(C)assio (E)milia (B)ianca
(Br)abantio (R)oderigo
(Du)ke of Venice (M)ontano
(L)odovico
A1S1
● Roderigo and Iago discuss their hatred of unworthy Cassio and savage Othello
● They reveal to Brabantio that Othello has married Desdemona
∙ [Venice at night. A street.] ∙ (I) the devil will make a grandsire out
∙ (R) Iago, who hast my purse as if the of you
strings were thine ∙ (I) your daughter covered with a
∙ (I) S’blood Barbary horse
∙ (I) pride and purposes … mere prattle ∙ (I) your daughter and the Moor are
without practice … counter-caster making the beast with two backs
∙ (I) I am not what I am ∙ (Br) Thou art a villain
∙ (I) thick-lips ∙ (I) the gross clasps of the lascivious
∙ (I) Thieves, thieves, thieves! Look to Moor
your house, your daughter, and your ∙ (I) an extravagant and wheeling
bags! stranger
∙ [Enter Brabantio at a window above] ∙ (Br) Light, I say, light!
… [Enter, below, Brabantio] ∙ (I) I do hate his as I hate hell-pains
∙ (I) Zounds, sir, you’re robbed ∙ (I) the property of youth and
∙ (I) an old black ram is tupping your maidenhood may be abused
white ewe! ∙ (Br) O, that you had had her
A1S2
● Iago warns Othello that Brabantio will attempt to force a divorce between him and Desdemona
● Othello is summoned by the Duke of Venice to court to discuss the Turkish war
● Brabantio accosts Othello, who calmly resolves the situation
● Brabantio decides to bring his cause before the Duke
∙ (I) And spoke such scurvy and ∙ (Br) O thou foul thief, where has thou
provoking terms against your honour stowed my daughter?
∙ (O) Let him do his spite; My services … ∙ (Br) Damned as thou art, thou hast
shall out-tongue his complaints enchanted her
∙ (O) I fetch my life and being from men ∙ (Br) she in chains of magic … foul
of royal siege charms … drugs or minerals
∙ (O) I love the gentle Desdemona ∙ (Br) a maid so tender, fair and happy,
∙ (O) My parts, my title and my perfect so opposite to a marriage she
soul shall manifest me rightly shunned the wealthy curled darlings
∙ (I) By Janus of our nation, would ever have …
∙ (I) He tonight hath boarded a land run from her guardage to the sooty
carack … lawful prize bosom of such a thing as thou – to
∙ (O) Keep up your bright swords fear, not to delight
∙ (Br) Mine’s not an idle cause
1
, A1S3
● The military meeting is disrupted by Brabantio’s fury at the secret marriage of his daughter
● Othello defends their union, and invites Desdemona to do the same, winning over the Duke
● Roderigo expresses his devastation surrounding his unrequited love
● Iago instructs him to reject pathetic emotions, and plots to incite the downfall of Othello
∙ (Du) Valiant Othello ∙ My heart’s subdued even to
∙ (Br) my particular grief is of so flood- the very quality of my lord
gate and o’erbearing nature that it ∙ (D) I saw Othello’s visage in his mind
engluts and swallows other sorrows ∙ (D) honours … valiant … consecrate …
∙ (Br) My daughter! O my daughter! rites … heaven … light-winged toys of
(All) Dead? feathered Cupid
∙ (Br) She is abused, stol’n … corrupted ∙ (D) I therefore beg it not to please the
by spells and medicines palate of my appetite
∙ (O) Rude I am in my speech ∙ (Du) Your son-in-law is far more fair
∙ (O) a round unvarnished tale than black
∙ (O) I won his daughter ∙ (Br) She has deceived her father, and
∙ (Br) A maiden never bold; of spirit so may thee
still and quiet … to fall in love with ∙ (O) My life upon her faith
what she feared to look on? ∙ (R) I will incontinently drown myself
∙ (Br) Against all rules of nature ∙ (I) ‘Virtue’? A fig! ‘Tis in ourselves …
∙ (Br) practices of cunning hell Our bodies are gardens, to the which
∙ (O) let her speak of me before her our wills are gardeners
father … let her witness it ∙ (I) the blood and baseness of our
∙ (O) This to hear would Desdemona natures … we have reason to cool our
seriously incline … She’d come again, raging motions, our carnal stings, our
and with a greedy ear unbitted lusts … It is merely a lust of
∙ (O) She gave me for my pains a world the blood and a permission of the will.
of sighs … she wished that heaven had Come, be a man. Drown thyself?
made her such a man Drown cats and blind puppies
∙ (Du) this tale would win my daughter ∙ (I) put money in they purse
∙ (D) I do perceive here a divided duty. ∙ (I) luscious as locusts … bitter as
To you I am bound colonquintida
∙ (D) duty as my mother showed … Due ∙ (I) when she is sated with his body,
to the Moor my lord she will find the error of her choice
∙ (Br) I had rather adopt a child than ∙ (I) a frail vow betwixt an erring
get it … For your sake, jewel, I am barbarian and a supersubtle Venetian
glad at soul I have no other child; for be not too hard for my wits and all
thy escape would teach me tyranny, the tribe of hell
to hang clogs on ‘em ∙ (I) The Moor is of a free and open
∙ (O) Most humbly … I crave fit nature, that thinks men honest that
disposition for my wife but seem to be so, and will as tenderly
∙ (D) trumpet to the world be led by th’ nose as asses are
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