Roderigo – ‘had my purse as if the strings were thine shouldnst know of this’ | Iago spending his money |
Iago – ‘I know my price, I am worth no worse a place’ | … |
Iago – ‘his eyes had seen the proof at Rhodes, at Cyprus, and on other grounds Christian and heathen, must be lee’d and calmed By debitor and creditor’ | … |
I – ‘his Moorship’s accent’ | … |
I ‘perferment goes by letter and affection, Not by the old graduation’ ‘to love the moor’ | cassion got the position because of favouritism |
Roderigo ‘I would not follow him then’ | … |
Iago – “i follow him to serve my turn upon him” | … |
Iago – ‘In following him, i follow but myself’ ‘I will wear my heart upon my sleeve’ ‘i am not what i am’ | … |
Roderigo – ‘the thick lips owe’ | – equally as racist as Iago |
Iago ‘Rouse him, make after him, poison his delight’ | metaphor for ruin |
Iago – ‘plague him with flies’ ‘look to your house, your daughter, and your bags!’ | … |
Iago ‘sir you’re robbed’ ‘an old black ram is tupping your white ewe”Or else the devil will make a grandshire of you’ | … |
Iago – ‘you’ll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse”you’ll have coursers for cousins, and jennets for germans’ ‘the beast with two backs”you are a senator’ | … |
Roderigo – ‘fair daughter”lascivious moor’ ‘a gross revolt’ ‘trying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes” | … |
Brabantio ‘where didst thou see her? O unhappy girl!’ | … |
B ‘O treason of blood! Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters’ minds’ ‘is there not charms By which the property of youth and maidhood may be abused’ ‘Roderigo;I’ll deserve your pains’ | … |
Othello (Act One Scene 1) Venice A Street at night
September 7, 2019