Shakespeare Navigator Summary (Act 1, scene i):
http://shakespeare-navigators.com/othello/S11.html
No Fear Shakespeare puts Shakespeare's language side-by-side with a facing-page translation into modern English—the kind of English people actually speak today.
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/othello/
4.2 Dramatic Reading of Shakespeare's Othello
By Dr. Greg Martin
http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/9044931
FROM https://sites.google.com/site/ohhelloothello/lesson-plans/act-4/scene-notes
Iago has instructed to look at Des and Iago.
1. In folio and not in quarto
- Why do you think it is in one version and not the other?
- Implying that his touch is also bad
- The wedding sheets:
- Why are the wedding sheets so important?
- What do they symbolize?
- Signifying that they have not consummated their marriage yet (Des and Othello)
1. Also shows that she is committed to Othello and their marriage.
2. Also shows she is committed to her fate, whatever it may be.
- Unknowingly she (Des) is talking about Iago as the name
1. Emilia in this scene
2. She has kneeled to Othello and Iago—giving herself to both in submission
- Line 4.2.180 — Roderigo enters
1. Finally suspecting that Iago is not doing what he said he would
2. Advise a plan to rid himself of Cassio, too
Why does Roderigo wish to get rid of all these people?
http://shakespeare-navigators.com/othello/S11.html
No Fear Shakespeare puts Shakespeare's language side-by-side with a facing-page translation into modern English—the kind of English people actually speak today.
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/othello/
4.2 Dramatic Reading of Shakespeare's Othello
By Dr. Greg Martin
http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/9044931
FROM https://sites.google.com/site/ohhelloothello/lesson-plans/act-4/scene-notes
- -Who is in this scene?
- What is the main action of this scene?
- Emphasis on what you see and hear being the proof of what is happening/has happened
Iago has instructed to look at Des and Iago.
- Use physiognomy
- How does Iago fail at physiognomy?
- Line 4.2.34ish—“What art thou?”
- Othello trying to get Des to confess (this is the first time out of two he dies this)
- Line 4.2.67—You’re as honest as rotting flesh that flies are flying around (very sad)
- He’s saying that she’s not honest, but looking at her, he can’t understand the contradiction or get past that.
- He believes Iago, but what he sees does not match what he’s been told (and now what he thinks)
1. In folio and not in quarto
- Why do you think it is in one version and not the other?
- Implying that his touch is also bad
- The wedding sheets:
- Why are the wedding sheets so important?
- What do they symbolize?
- Signifying that they have not consummated their marriage yet (Des and Othello)
1. Also shows that she is committed to Othello and their marriage.
2. Also shows she is committed to her fate, whatever it may be.
- Unknowingly she (Des) is talking about Iago as the name
1. Emilia in this scene
2. She has kneeled to Othello and Iago—giving herself to both in submission
- Line 4.2.180 — Roderigo enters
1. Finally suspecting that Iago is not doing what he said he would
2. Advise a plan to rid himself of Cassio, too
Why does Roderigo wish to get rid of all these people?