No Fear Shakespeare
Othello
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Act 1, Scene 1, Page 6
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Transported with no worse nor better guard
But with a knave of common hire, a gondolier,
To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor,
If this be known to you and your allowance,
We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs.
But if you know not this my manners tell me
We have your wrong rebuke. Do not believe
That, from the sense of all civility,
I thus would play and trifle with your reverence.
Your daughter (if you have not given her leave)
I say again, hath made a gross revolt,
Tying her duty, beauty, wit, and fortunes
In an extravagant and wheeling stranger
Of here and everywhere. Straight satisfy yourself.
If she be in her chamber or your house,
Let loose on me the justice of the state
For thus deluding you.
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approval, then we’ve been very rude to bother you like
this. But if you didn’t know about it, then you were
wrong to get mad at us. I’d never play pranks on you. If
you didn’t allow your daughter to do what
she’s doing, then she’s rebelling against you.
She’s throwing her life away on some stranger. Go ahead,
see for yourself if she’s in her bedroom. If she is, you
can sue me for lying to you.
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BRABANTIO
Strike on the
tinder, ho!
Give me a taper, call up all my people!
This accident is not unlike my dream,
Belief of it oppresses me already.
Light, I say, light!
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BRABANTIO
Light the candles! Wake up my whole household! I dreamt about
this. I’m starting to worry it’s true. Give me
some light!
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IAGO
(to RODERIGO)
Farewell, for I
must leave you.
It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place,
To be producted (as, if I stay, I shall)
Against the Moor. For I do know the state
(However this may gall him with some check)
Cannot with safety cast him, for he’s embarked
With such loud reason to the Cyprus wars
(Which even now stand in act) that, for their souls,
Another of his fathom they have none
To lead their business. In which regard,
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IAGO
(to RODERIGO)
It’s time for me to say goodbye to you. It would be
inappropriate—dangerous, even—for me to be
seen working against the Moor, as I would if I stayed. The Venetian
government might reprimand him for this, but it can’t
safely get rid of him, since it needs him urgently for the imminent
Cyprus wars. They couldn’t find another man with his
abilities to lead their armed forces—not if their souls
depended on it. I hate him, but I’ve got to show him
signs of loyalty
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