Stone Duchess (cas’d) | cas’d up, like a holy relic |
Stone Duchess (figure) | This is flesh and blood sir, / ‘Tis not the figure cut in alablaster / Kneels at my husband’s tomb |
Lodovico | the object poisons sight / let it be hid. |
Ferdinand death Diamond | Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust |
* Ferdinand death sister | My sister! Oh my sister! there’s the cause on’t. / Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, / Like Diamonds we are cut with our own dust |
Ferd deaf | this intemperate noise / fitly resembles deaf men’s shrill discourse / who talk aloud, thinking all other men / To have their imperfection |
Ferd rupture | I can be angry / without this rupture |
Deianira realising Iole knowledge | Oh! Oh! What has happened to me? |
* Deianira sculptor | the robe engulfed him / around his limbs, clinging to his sides / like the work of a sculptor |
Deianira promised by Nessus | a charm over / the heart of Heracles, so he will never look at another woman / and love her more than you |
Deianira sceptic | the only thing that could hurt would be not to know |
cavell winter’s tale and othello | the result of the men’s refusal to ackowledge the other is ‘an imagination of stone’ |
* cavell stone available to knowledge | a stone, a statue is fundamentally open to the ocular proof (…) a human being is not’ |
deianira Hyllus | why should a mother’s name bring dignity / when her deeds are nothing like a mother’s? |
ferd duchess pitch | dip the sheets they lie in, in pitch or sulphur / wrap them in’t, and then light them like a match |
* ferd revenge ventage | I would have their bodies / Burnt in a coal-pit with the ventage stopp’d / That their curs’d smoke might not ascend to heaven. |
* Othello whip me | whip me ye devils / from the possession of this heavenly sight! |
Deianira silence chorus | do you not know that your silence / agrees with your accusers? |
Simone Weil | Might is that which makes a thing of anybody who comes under its sway |
Cavell Gendered Knowing traditions | Heidegger to ‘grasp’; Biblical sexual access to the man not woman; |
Cavell Gendered knowing quote | violence in masculine knowing explicitly associated with jealousy (…) private property |
Deianira means | man-destroyer |
Ferdinand looks at Duchess body | BOSOLA: Fix your eye here.FERDINAND: Constantly.BOSOLA: Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out |
Othello cause | It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul. / Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars, / It is the cause |
* Othello Desdemona refuses to confess perjured | O perjur’d woman, / Thou dost stone [my/thy] heart / And makest me call what I intend to do / A murder, which I thought a sacrifice. |
Deianira torn apart | may you never learn / by your own suffering how my heart is torn. / You do not know. |
Cavell stone similar | everything the other is not |
Othello faith in des | my life upon her faith |
TRAGEDY DEIANIRA / OTHELLO / MALFI
September 3, 2019