DRAMA - Othello Flashcards
(16 cards)
Context?
Elizabethan England 16th century
Role of women?
insignificant, they were the property of men
‘Moors’
North and West Africans, alienated and represented as sexually overactive, violent, prone to jealousy and murderous
QUOTE - shed blood
‘Yet I’ll not shed her blood, / Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow’
QUOTE - rose
‘When I have plucked thy rose’
QUOTE - breath
‘Oh, balmy breath, that dost almost persuade / Justice to break her sword!’
QUOTE - weep
‘I must weep, / But they are cruel tears.’
QUOTE - chrysolite
‘Had she been true / If heaven would make me such another world / Of one entire and perfect chrysolite, / I’d not have sold her for it.’
QUOTE - in pain
‘I that am cruel am yet merciful, / I would not have thee linger in thy pain’
QUOTE - stone
‘O perjured woman, thou dost stone my heart’
QUOTE - art to die
‘For to deny each article with oath / Cannot remove nor choke the strong conception / That I do groan withal. Thou art to die’
QUOTE - foul
‘Oh, she was foul!’
QUOTE - assault
‘…As naked as I am, I will assault thee.’
QUOTE - final monologue
‘Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate… Perplexed in the extreme… threw a pearl away ‘
QUOTE - venetian
‘Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk / Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, / I took by the throat the circumcisèd dog, / And smote him, thus.’
QUOTE - lovidico
‘Oh Othello, you were once so good, / then you were tricked by this villain. What can I say / to you’
