III.i
Cassio, perhaps in attempt to please Othello, sends musicians to play at his window. A clown/ servant comes out, make some off-colour jokes about contracting syphilis and breaking wind and tells the musicians that Othello does not want to hear them. Cassio pays the clown to bring Emilia to speak with him. Iago arrives and kindly offers to occupy Othello, allowing Cassio to speak to Desdemona alone.
Emilia proves sympathetic to Cassio's plight, and informs him that Desdemona is already speaking up for him to Othello, who has as good as said that he will reinstate Cassio when politically viable, given Montano's popularity and status.
Somewhat imprudently, Cassio requests to speak with Desdemona alone, and Emilia allows him in.
III.ii
The division between Othello's private life and public duty is highlighted in this short scene where he sends communications to the senate and inspects fortifications while his wife converses with Cassio.
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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/
3.1 & 3.2 Dramatic Reading of Shakespeare's Othello
By Dr. Greg Martin
http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/9044936
3.1 and 3.2 Explanation of Shakespeare's Othello
By Dr. Greg Martin
http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/9044935
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