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  • Her grandfather kills his unfaithful wife and himself in a manner strongly reminiscent of Othello.†   (source)
  • He noticed Gibbon's acidity, but not his tolerance, Othello's love for the fair Desdemona, but not Iago's perverted love of Othello.†   (source)
  • I had a theater review of Othello due on the eZine editor's desk by nine p.m., and I made a deal with myself, promising I'd go hunt down food as soon as I finished it.†   (source)
  • He did this thing from Othello, and when he said the line about love and such, he stared straight at me.†   (source)
  • "Othello [played by John Kemble] was represented blacker than any African," she wrote.†   (source)
  • Othello's talent was a decorated sleeve she was charmed by.†   (source)
  • I should give you Othello's handkerchief.†   (source)
  • The first night I played Othello, he said to our manager, "That young man is playing Othello better than I ever did!"†   (source)
  • Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be.   (source)
  • Why don't you let them see Othello instead?   (source)
  • Only in Othello's word could he find an adequate vehicle for his contempt and hatred.   (source)
  • Because our world is not the same as Othello's world.   (source)
  • And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello.   (source)
  • And now expecting them to understand Othello!   (source)
  • "All the same," he insisted obstinately, "Othello's good,"   (source)
  • Othello, he remembered, was like the hero of Three Weeks in a Helicopter–a black man.   (source)
    Othello = main character of Shakespeare's tragedy by the same name
  • Othello's better than those feelies.   (source)
    Othello = Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy
  • For the same reason as we don't give them Othello: they're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago.   (source)
  • All the tonic effects of murdering Desdemona and being murdered by Othello, without any of the inconveniences.   (source)
    Othello = main character of Shakespeare's tragedy by the same name
  • Don't you remember what Othello said?   (source)
  • "Well then," he said, after a pause, "something new that's like Othello, and that they could understand."   (source)
    Othello = Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy
  • "Othello was not jealous, he was trustful," observed Pushkin.   (source)
    Othello = main character of Shakespeare's tragedy by the same name
  • Othello's soul was shattered and his whole outlook clouded simply because his ideal was destroyed.   (source)
  • Othello was incapable of making up his mind to faithlessness—not incapable of forgiving it, but of making up his mind to it—though his soul was as innocent and free from malice as a babe's.   (source)
  • He was smart when it came to Othello, but now he was acting like a geek.†   (source)
  • Othello was "manly, generous, noble" in character, so much that was admirable.†   (source)
  • And he began the monologue from Othello.†   (source)
  • It was in Othello, as Desdemona, that she was "interesting beyond any actress I had ever seen.†   (source)
  • Your first instinct might be that he would grasp one of the tragedies, Othello, say, where race is already at issue.†   (source)
  • If Susie was carrying around To Kill a Mockingbird it means she must have turned in her paper on Othello already.†   (source)
  • The BBC series Masterpiece Theatre has recast Othello as a contemporary story of black police commissioner John Othello, his lovely white wife Dessie, and his friend Ben Jago, deeply resentful at being passed over for promotion.†   (source)
  • "I like Othello," I ventured.†   (source)
  • Othello?†   (source)
  • I couldn't take my eyes from him, and neither could anyone else in the room as he transformed into Othello.†   (source)
  • Then he looked into my eyes and completed Othello's speech to me, as though I was the absent Desdemona he spoke of "She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man; she thank'd me, And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her.†   (source)
  • But first, I thought you'd like to have a demonstration of how a monologue should be performed, so I asked one of our talented upperclassmen to stop by and recite the famous monologue from Othello, written by the ancient vampyre playwright, Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • That Mrs. Siddons then appeared in Othello, making the transition from Lady Macbeth to Desdemona, was declared the mark of genius, and the Adamses were among the glittering audiences that filled the Drury Lane for both productions.†   (source)
  • The praise Edwin Booth gave my Othello.†   (source)
  • In 1874 when Edwin Booth came to the theater in Chicago where I was leading man, I played Cassius to his Brutus one night, Brutus to his Cassius the next, Othello to his Iago, and so on.†   (source)
  • He was now engaged on Othello, who stood, bullish and shy, till his ordeal should finish.†   (source)
  • And some of 'em just can't help playing Othello.†   (source)
  • "Othello with his occupation gone," she teased.†   (source)
  • For example, MACBETH is about ambition, Othello is about jealousy, and TIMON OF ATHENS is about money.†   (source)
  • Or again, Gant would read to him with sonorous and florid rhetoric passages from Shakespeare, among which he heard most often Marc Antony's funeral oration, Hamlet's soliloquy, the banquet scene in Macbeth, and the scene between Desdemona and Othello before he strangles her.†   (source)
  • Only two of them, HAMLET and OTHELLO, are supposedly occurring inside the Christian era, and even in those, apart from the antics of the ghost in HAMLET, there is no indication of a "next world" where everything is to be put right.†   (source)
  • We at once began the duet in Othello and already the catastrophe was upon us.†   (source)
  • That was her feeling—Othello's feeling, and she felt it, she was convinced, as strongly as Shakespeare meant Othello to feel it, all because she was coming down to dinner in a white frock to meet Sally Seton!†   (source)
  • They were attracted to each other; a Swedish Othello and Desdemona, more useful and amiable than their prototypes.†   (source)
  • Once, strolling companies had used it for performances of "The Two Orphans," and "Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model," and "Othello" with specialties between acts, but now the motion-pictures had ousted the gipsy drama.†   (source)
  • He was Othello himself.†   (source)
  • What a triumph for the actor, thus to reduce a jaded London journalist to the condition of the simple sailor in the Wapping gallery, who shouts execrations at Iago and warnings to Othello not to believe him!†   (source)
  • Othello The bloody and inhuman scene rather incidentally mentioned than described in the preceding chapter, is conspicuous in the pages of colonial history by the merited title of "The Massacre of William Henry."†   (source)
  • Go and see Othello acted.†   (source)
  • The forest of Arden,[627] the nimble air of Scone Castle,[628] the moonlight of Portia's villa,[629] "the antres vast[630] and desarts idle," of Othello's captivity,—where is the third cousin, or grand-nephew, the chancellor's file of accounts, or private letter, that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?†   (source)
  • Or "One stone terrace (cracked), one gondola in distance, one Venetian senator's dress complete, richly embroidered white satin costume with profile portrait of Miss Jogg the model, one Scimitar superbly mounted in gold with jewelled handle, elaborate Moorish dress (very rare), and Othello."†   (source)
  •   Had I the choice to tally greatest bards,
      To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will,
      Homer with all his wars and warriors—Hector, Achilles, Ajax,
      Or Shakespeare's woe-entangled Hamlet, Lear, Othello—Tennyson's fair ladies,
      Metre or wit the best, or choice conceit to wield in perfect rhyme, delight of singers;
      These, these, O sea, all these I'd gladly barter,
      Would you the undulation of one wave, its trick to me transfer,
      Or breathe one breath of yours upon my verse,
      And leave its odor there.   (source)
    Othello = Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy
  • In Cymbeline, in Othello he is bawd and cuckold.†   (source)
  • Othello black brute.†   (source)
  • [Enter Othello, Lodovico, Desdemona, Emilia, and Attendants.†   (source)
  • [Enter Othello, Iago, and Attendants with torches.†   (source)
  • [Exeunt Othello, Desdemona, and Attendants.†   (source)
  • [Exeunt Othello, Desdemona, and Attendants.†   (source)
  • Is that true? why then Othello and Desdemona return again to Venice.†   (source)
  • [Exeunt Othello, Lodovico, and Attendants.†   (source)
  • Why, by making him uncapable of Othello's place;—knocking out his brains.†   (source)
  • That's he that was Othello;—here I am.†   (source)
  • Heaven keep that monster from Othello's mind!†   (source)
  • So they do nothing, 'tis a venial slip: But if I give my wife a handkerchief,— OTHELLO.†   (source)
  • Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you Against the general enemy Ottoman.†   (source)
  • [Enter Othello, Desdemona, Cassio, and Attendants.†   (source)
  • [Enter Brabantio, Othello, Iago, Roderigo, and Officers.†   (source)
  • Sir, there is especial commission come from Venice to depute Cassio in Othello's place.†   (source)
  • Heaven bless the isle of Cyprus and our noble general Othello!†   (source)
  • I fear the trust Othello puts him in, On some odd time of his infirmity, Will shake this island.†   (source)
  • This is Othello's ancient, as I take it.†   (source)
  • How now, my dear Othello!†   (source)
  • Jones, who in the compliance of his disposition (though not in his prudence) a little resembled his lovely Sophia, was easily prevailed on to satisfy Mr Dowling's curiosity, by relating the history of his birth and education, which he did, like Othello.†   (source)
  • …his finding him in the room with Mrs Waters; and, though sufficient reasons had afterwards appeared entirely to clear up that suspicion, yet now the reading so handsome a character of Mr Jones from his wife, caused him to reflect that she likewise was in the inn at the same time, and jumbled together such a confusion of circumstances in a head which was naturally none of the clearest, that the whole produced that green-eyed monster mentioned by Shakespear in his tragedy of Othello.†   (source)
  • This good woman was, no more than Othello, of a disposition To make a life of jealousy And follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions— With her, as well as him, —To be once in doubt, Was once to be resolvd— she therefore ordered Jenny immediately to pack up her alls and begone, for that she was determined she should not sleep that night within her walls.†   (source)
  • I was the other day talking on the sea bank with certain Venetians, and thither comes the bauble, and falls thus about my neck,— OTHELLO.†   (source)
  • Her honour is an essence that's not seen; They have it very oft that have it not: But, for the handkerchief,— OTHELLO.†   (source)
  • 'tis a lost fear; Man but a rush against Othello's breast, And he retires:—where should Othello go?†   (source)
  • But, Othello, speak: Did you by indirect and forced courses Subdue and poison this young maid's affections?†   (source)
  • [Enter Othello, Iago, and Gentlemen.†   (source)
  • Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul, What you would ask me, that I should deny, Or stand so mammering on.†   (source)
  • Othello, leave some officer behind, And he shall our commission bring to you; With such things else of quality and respect As doth import you.†   (source)
  • A man that all his time Hath founded his good fortunes on your love, Shar'd dangers with you,— OTHELLO.†   (source)
  • Trust me, I could do much,— OTHELLO. pr'y thee, no more; let him come when he will; I will deny thee nothing.†   (source)
  • [Enter Othello and Attendants.†   (source)
  • The ship is here put in, A Veronessa; Michael Cassio, Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello, Is come on shore: the Moor himself's at sea, And is in full commission here for Cyprus.†   (source)
  • [Re-enter Othello and Attendants.†   (source)
  • Come, lieutenant, I have a stoup of wine; and here without are a brace of Cyprus gallants that would fain have a measure to the health of black Othello.†   (source)
  • [Exeunt Othello and Desdemona.†   (source)
  • Or heard him say,—as knaves be such abroad, Who having, by their own importunate suit, Or voluntary dotage of some mistress, Convinced or supplied them, cannot choose But they must blab,— OTHELLO.†   (source)
  • —Let's see:— After some time, to abuse Othello's ear That he is too familiar with his wife:— He hath a person, and a smooth dispose, To be suspected; fram'd to make women false.†   (source)
  • Why, sweet Othello,— OTHELLO.†   (source)
  • [Exeunt Othello and Desdemona.†   (source)
  • As well to see the vessel that's come in As to throw out our eyes for brave Othello, Even till we make the main and the aerial blue An indistinct regard.†   (source)
  • ] [Enter Othello at a distance.†   (source)
  • ] Witness, you ever-burning lights above, You elements that clip us round about,— Witness that here Iago doth give up The execution of his wit, hands, heart, To wrong'd Othello's service!†   (source)
  • My noble lord,— OTHELLO.†   (source)
  • ] [Enter Othello and Iago.†   (source)
  • My noble lord,— OTHELLO.†   (source)
  • Othello's occupation's gone!†   (source)
  • That I did love the Moor to live with him, My downright violence and storm of fortunes May trumpet to the world: my heart's subdu'd Even to the very quality of my lord: I saw Othello's visage in his mind; And to his honors and his valiant parts Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.†   (source)
  • [Enter Othello and Emilia.†   (source)
  • —Great Jove, Othello guard, And swell his sail with thine own powerful breath, That he may bless this bay with his tall ship, Make love's quick pants in Desdemona's arms, Give renew'd fire to our extincted spirits, And bring all Cyprus comfort!†   (source)
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  • [Othello withdraws.†   (source)
  • It is Othello's pleasure, our noble and valiant general, that upon certain tidings now arrived, importing the mere perdition of the Turkish fleet, every man put himself into triumph; some to dance, some to make bonfires, each man to what sport and revels his addiction leads him: for, besides these beneficial news, it is the celebration of his nuptial:—so much was his pleasure should be proclaimed.†   (source)
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