Othello: Act One & Two

Othello: Act One & Two

1. Act 1

   • Scene 1
     • IAGO and RODERIGO bickering about OTHELLO
       • "Thou told'st me thou didst hold him in thy hate" - Roderigo
       • "...His Moorship ancient" - Iago
       • Never say who they hate, specifically - "Moor"
     • Both shout to BARBANTIO about DESDEMONA and OTHELLO'S elopement
       • "...your daughter and he Moor are now making the beast with two backs" - Iago
       • "Thou art a villain" - Barbantio
       • "Your daughter...hath made a gross revolt" - Roderigo
   • Scene 2
     • IAGO talks to OTHELLO about DESDEMONA
       • IAGO: "Are you fast married" OTHELLO: "I love thee Desdemona, I would not my unhoused free condition
     • IAGO warns BARBANTIO is after OTHELLO
       • "The duke does greet you, general, and he requires your haste-post- haste appearance Even on the instant." - Cassio
     • BARBANTIO and his men come and seize OTHELLO, who stays in control
       • "Draw on him, thief!" -BARBANTIO
       • "Good signior, you shall more command with years thank with your weapons" -OTHELLO
       • "How may the duke be therewith satisfied, whose messengers are here about my side, Upon some present business of the state to bring me to him?" -OTHELLO
         • More problems to deal with and cants say problem to Duke as crowd is present.
           • DRAMATICALLY EFFECTIVE
   • Scene 3
     • OTHELLO, DUKE and SENATORS see threat against Cyprus
       • "Nay, this is possible enough to judgement; I do not so secure me in the error" -DUKE
       • "Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you against the general enemy Ottoman." -DUKE
     • BARBANTION presses charges on OTHELLO, but DESDEMONA confirms OTHELLOS story
       • "Ay, to me; she is abused, stolen from me and corrupted by spells and medicines..." -BARBANTIO
       • "To fall in love with what she feared to look on!" -BARBANTIO
       • "She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her hat she did pity them." -OTHELLO
       • "That I love the Moor to live with him," -DESDEMONA
     • IAGO tells us about his plot
       • "I hate the Moor; and it is thought abroad that 'twixt my sheets he's done my office" -IAGO
       • "Framed to make women false" -IAGO
       • "Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light" IAGO

2. Act 2

   • Scene 1
     • DESDEMONA, IAGO, CASSIO, EMILIA and RODERIGO arrive in Cyprus, where all rule under OTHELLO
       • "Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello, Is come on shore; the Moor himself at sea, and is in full commission here for Cyprus" -GENTLEMAN
       • "I thank you, valiant Cassio. What tidings can you tell me of my lord?" -DESDEMONA
     • OTHELLO arrives and DESDEMONA and him rejoice and announce Turkish fleet is gone.
       • OTHELLO: "O my fair warrior!" DESDEMONA: "My dear Othello"
       • "News, friends: our wars are done; the Turks are drowned" - OTHELLO
     • IAGO tells RODERIGO, that CASSIO 'loves' DESDEMONA and announces his plan.
       • "For I fear Cassio with my night-cap too-" - IAGO
       • "For that I do suspect the lusty Moor hath leaped into my seat..." IAGO
   • Scene 2
     • HERALD announces there to be a party of the fall of the Turkish fleet
       • "Besides these beneficial news, it is the celebration of his nuptial." - HERALD
   • Scene 3
     • IAGO talks to CASSIO who has drank too much, and IAGO tells us his plans
       • "He'll be as full of quarrel and offence as my young mistress' dog." - IAGO
       • "I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking" - CASSIO
     • When MONTANO tried to stop conflict, , CASSIO wounds him.
       • "Good faith, a little one; not past a pint, as I am a soldier" - MONTANO
       • "Zounds, I bleed still. I am hurt to th'death. He dies" - MONTANO
     • IAGO persuades CASSIO that he can get his job back from talking to OTHELLO
       • "O, I have lost my reputation I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation" - CASSIO
       • "Come , come, wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used; exclaim no more against it." - IAGO
     • IAGO has another solilique about how his plan is working. Confirms with RODERIGO that it is.
       • "And what's he then that says I play the villain..." - IAGO
       • "How am I then a villain to counsel Cassio to this parallel course, directly to his good? Divinity of hell!" - IAGO
       • "And bring him jump when he may Cassio find soliciting his wife" - IAGO