| Iago says sarcastically that Desdemona was only | naked with her friend in bed an hour or more, not meaning any harm |
| Iago on the handkerchief | ’tis hers, my lord; and being hers, she may, I think, bestow’t on any man |
| Iago ‘honour’ | Her honour is an essence that’s not seen |
| exchange between Iago and Othello about Cassio’s adultery | Lie- / With her? / With her, on her, what you will |
| Othello horned man = a man who’s been cheated on. CONTEXT: this alludes to the traditional image of a man being given horns to signify he is a ‘cuckold’ | A horned man’s a monster and a beast |
| Iago on Othello’s jealously | his unbookish jealousy must construe poor Cassio’s miles, gestures, and light behaviours quite in the wrong |
| Othello says he has a heart of stone | my heart is turned to stone |
| Othello describing Desdemona as a ‘musician’ | I do but say what she is: so delicate with her needle, an admirable musician – O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear – of so high and plenteous wit and intention |
| Iago and Othello on killing Desdemona | Do it not with poison; strangle her in bed, even the bed she hath contaminated / Good, good! The justice of it pleases |
| Lodovico | Is this the nature whom passion could not shake? whose solid virtue the shot of accident nor dart of chance could neither graze nor pierce? |
| Othello says Desdemona is an ‘admirable musician’ who: | will sing the savageness out of a bear |
| Othello says the jumbled words “_” before falling to the ground in a fit. | Is’t possible? Confess? handkerchief? O devil! |
Othello 4. i. (The Handkerchief)
September 2, 2019