No Fear Shakespeare
Othello
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 4, Scene 1, Page 14
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Cassio shall have my place. And, sir, tonight
I do entreat that we may sup together.
You are welcome, sir, to Cyprus. Goats and monkeys!
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Cassio can have my job. And tonight, sir, I invite you have dinner
with me. Welcome to Cyprus. Horny animals!
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LODOVICO
Is this the noble Moor whom our full senate
Call all in all sufficient? Is this the nature
Whom passion could not shake? Whose solid virtue
The shot of accident nor dart of chance
Could neither graze nor pierce?
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LODOVICO
Is this the same Moor whom the senate considers so capable? Is
this the guy who’s supposed to never get emotional, and
who never gets rattled, no matter what disaster happens?
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IAGO
He is much
changed.
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IAGO
He’s changed a great deal.
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LODOVICO
Are his wits safe? Is he not light of brain?
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LODVICO
Is he sane? Is he losing his mind?
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IAGO
He’s that he is. I may not breathe my censure
What he might be. If what he might he is not,
I would to heaven he were!
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IAGO
He is what he is. I won’t say anything negative about
what he might be. If he isn’t what he might be, then I
wish to God he were!
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LODOVICO
What? Strike his
wife?
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LODOVICO
Hitting his wife?
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IAGO
'Faith, that was not so well. Yet would I knew
That stroke would prove the worst!
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IAGO
It’s true, that wasn’t such a nice thing to
do. But I wish I could say that’s the last time
he’ll do it!
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LODOVICO
Is it his use?
Or did the letters work upon his blood
And new-create his fault?
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LODOVICO
Is it a habit of his? Or did the letter make him emotional
somehow, and this is the first time he’s done it?
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