a1.s1 Iago and Roderigo discussing Othello and Cassio
EPISODE
“three great ones of the city” - I to R
“I know my price I am worth no worse a place” - I to R
“But he, as loving as his own pride and purposes” - I to R about O
“One Michael Cassio a Florentine” - I to R about C
“I follow him to serve my turn upon him” - I to R about O
“We cannot all be masters, nor all masters can be truly followed” - I to R about O
“In following him, I follow but myself” - I to R about O
“I am not what I am” - I to R
a1.s1 Iago, Roderigo and Brabantio talking about Othello and Desdemona’s relationship
EPISODE
“an old black ram is tupping your white ewe” - I to B about O and D
“Barbay horse” - I to B about O
“your daughter and the Moor are making the beast with two back” - I to B about O and D
“Thou art a villain”- B to I
“Another of his fathom they have none, to lead their business” - I to R
“I must show out a flag and sign of love, which is indeed but a sign” - I to R
a1.s2 Othello proving his honour, acting like his role as a general
(Before Iago, Cassio, Othello and Brabantio meet with the Duke)
EPISODE
“And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms” - I to O about R
“Let him do his spite: my services which I have done the signory, shall out-tongue his complaints” - O to I
“I love the gentle Desdemona” - O to I
“My parts, my title, and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly” - O to C and I
“You have been hotly called for” - C to O
“Keep up your bright swords, for the dew may rust them” - O to B’s soldiers
a1.s3 Othello, Brabantio, Desdemona meeting Duke and Senate, and defending their relationship
EPISODE
“Valiant Othello”- Duke to O
“She is abused, stolen” - B about D to Senate
“approved good masters” - O to Senate
“Rude am I in speech and little blessed with the soft phrase of peace;” - O to Senate
“I won his daughter” - O to senate about D
“what she feared to look on” - B to Senate about D, O
“She’d come again with a greedy ear She’d come again with a greedy ear she would devour up my discourse” - O to senate about D
“She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them” - O to senate about D
“To you I am bound for my life and education;” D to B
“Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may deceive thee” - B to O about D
a1.s3 Iago’s soliloquy about Othello, and justifying his hate towards him by saying that Othello slept with Emilia
PLOT POINT
“Thus do i ever make my fool my purse”- I about R
“I hate the Moor, and it is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets he has done my office” - I about O
“How?How?” - I plotting about O
“That Moor is of a free and open nature, that thinks men honest that but seem to be so, and will as tenderly be led by those as asses are” - I about O
“Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light” - I plotting
a2. s1 Everyone arriving in Cyprus, and Iago plotting
PLOT POINT
“Our Wars are done!” - 3rd gentleman about war
“divine Desdemona” C about D
“players in your housewifery and housewives in your beds” I to E,D, C about women
“He takes her by the palm… With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio” - I about C,D(aside)
“If it were now to die, ‘twere now to be the most happy” - O about D
“O you are well tuned now! But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music, as honest as I am” - I about C,D (aside)
a2. s1 Iago manipulating Roderigo into following his plan, Iago’s soliloquy and justification for hating Othello, and his plot
EPISODE
“Desdemona is directly in love with him” I to R
“Dids’t thou not see her paddle with the palm of his hand?” - I to R about C, D
“met so near with their lips their breaths embraced together” - I to R about C, D
R leaves, I alone
“That Cassio loves her, I do well believe it; that she loves him” - I about C, D
“Now I do love her too” - I about D
“I do suspect the lusty Moor hath leapt into my seat” - I about O, E
“wife for wife” - I about E, D, O
“I put the Moor at least into a jealousy so strong that judgement cannot cure” - I about O
“For I fear Cassio with my nightcap, too” - I about C, E
“practising upon his peace and quiet even to madness” - I about O
a2.s3 Cassio, Iago and Othello pre and post drunk scene
EPISODE
“He’ll be as full of quarrel and offence” - I soliloquy about C
“I am not drunk now” - C
“My blood begins my safer guides to rule” - O to I, C, M
“Though he had twinned with me, both at a birth, shall lose me.” O to I, C, M
“I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth than it should do offence to Michael Cassio” I about C to O,M,C
“But men are men; the best sometimes forget” I about C to O,M,C
“Yet surely Cassio I believe received from him that fled some strange indignity” I about C to O,M,C
“Cassio, I love thee; but nevermore be officer of mine” O about C to I,M,C
“Reputation, reputation, reputation! O I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. Mu reputation, Iago, my reputation!” - C to I
“Our general’s wife is now the general.” I to C about D and O
“Confess yourself freely to her” I to C about D
“She is of so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition,” I to C about D
“You advise me well” C to I
a2.s3 Iago’s soliloquy after “comforting” Cassio
EPISODE
“And whats he then that says I play the villain, when this advise is free I give and honest”
“To win the Moor again”
“How am I then a villain to counsel Cassio to this parallel course, directly to his good?”
“I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear” about O
“So I will turn her virtue into pitch, and out of her own goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all.” about D
a3.s1 Cassio and musicians
PLOT
“I never knew a Florentine more kind and honest” C about I
a3.s3 Desdemona, Cassio, and Emilia talking about how to reform Cassio’s relationship with Othello
EPISODE
“I warrant it grieves my husband if the cause were his.” - E to DC about I
“If I do vow a friendship, I’ll perform it to the last article.” D to C, E about O
“His bed shall seem a school” D to C, E about O
“For thy solicitor shall rather die than give thy cause away” D to C, E
a3.s3 Desdemona pressuring Othello to talk to Cassio
PLOT
“Ha! I like not that.” I to O about C
“I cannot think it, that he would sneak away so guilty-like, seeing you coming” I to O about C
“some other time…. no, not tonight” O to D about C
“I will deny thee nothing” O to D
a3.s3 Othello and Iago after Desdemona and Emilia leave, 1st time Iago is planting seeds of doubt in Othello’s mind.
EPISODE
“Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul but I do love thee; and when I love thee not, chaos is come again” - O to I about D
“Men should be what they seem, or those that be not, would they might seem none.” - I to O about C h
“Thou doest conspire against thy friend, Iago.” O to I
“O beware my lord of jealousy; it is a green eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on” I to O
“No, to be once in doubt is once to be resolved” O to I
“For she had eyes and chose me. No Iago, I’ll see before I doubt” O to I
“I speak not yet of proof. Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio.” I to O
“She did deceive her father” I to O
“Why did I marry? This honest creature doubtless sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds.” O alone
a3.s3 Othello soliloquy reflecting on his marriage with Desdemona, Desdemona and Emilia enter
PLOT
“This fellows of exceeding honesty” - about I
“Haply for I am black”
“If she be false, o then heaven mocks itself. I’ll not believe it” - O about D
“[she drops it]” D dropping handkerchief
a3.s3 Emilia reluctantly gives Iago Desdemona’s handkerchief and Iago reflects on his plot
EPISODE
“This was her first remembrance from the Moor” - E about D’s handkerchief
“[snatching it]” - I snatching D’s handkerchief from E
E leaves and I soliloquy
“The Moor already changes with my poison”- about O
a3.s3 Othello’s complete descent into madness, Iago’s successful manipulation
EPISODE
“Thou hast set me on the rack” - O to I
“Let him not know’t and he’s not robbed at all” - O to I about C
“Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content” - O to I
“Give me the ocular proof” - O to I
“O heaven defend me! Are you a man? Have you a soul or sense?” - I to O
“I think my wife be honest, and think she is not. I think that thou art just, and think that thou art not. I’ll have some proof” - O to I about D
“I’ll tear her all to pieces” - O to I about D
“Arise, black vengeance, from the hollow hell.” - O to I
“Within these three days let me hear thee say that Cassio’s not alive” - O to I about C
a3.s4 Desdemona and Emilia talking about Othello, and Desdemona’s handkerchief interaction with Othello
EPISODE
“My noble Moor is true of mind, and made of no such baseness as jealous creatures” - D about O to E
“Give me your hand. This hand is moist, my lady” - O to D
“The hearts of old gave hands but our new heraldy is hands, not hearts” - O to D
“There’s magic in the web of it” - O to D about handkerchief
“Pray you let Cassio be received again.” - D toO about C
“The handkerchief” x3 - O to D
a3.s4 Desdemona, Cassio and Emilia talking about Othello not being himself
PLOT
“Is not this man jealous?” - E to D about O
“My advocation is not now in tune: my lord is not my lord” - D about O to C
“It is a monster begot upon itself, born on itself” - E to D about jealousy and men
a4.s1 Othello’s seizures, and Othello thinking Cassio is berating Desdemona (actually Bianca), and its aftermath
EPISODE
“With her? On her. What you will.” - I about D to O
“[Falls in a trance]” - O
“Work on my medicine, work!” - I while O seizures
“I am a villain very else” - I to C
“How shall I murder him, Iago?” - O to I about C
“Ay, let her rot and perish, and be damned tonight, for she shall not live. No, my heart
is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand. O, the world hath not a sweeter
creature! She might lie by an emperor’s side, and command his tasks.” - O to I about D
“O Iago, the pity of it Iago.” - O to I
“I will chop her into messes.” - O to I about D
“Do it not with poison, strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hatch contaminated.” - I to O about D
a4.s1 Othello abuses Desdemona in front of Lodovico and Iago
EPISODE
“for the love I bear to Cassio” - D to O about C
“[strikes her] Devil!” - O to D
“I have not deserved this.” - D to O
“I will not stay to offend you.” D to O
“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?” - L to I about O
a4.s2 Othello verbally abusing Desdemona in front of Emilia
EPISODE
“If any wretch hath put this in your head, let heaven requite it with the serpents curse.” - E to O
“O aye, as summer flies are in the
shambles, that quicken even with blowing. O thou weed, who art so lovely fair, and smell’st so sweet, that the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst never been born!” - O to D
“By heaven you do me wrong.” - D to O
“I took you for that cunning whore of Venice” - O to D
a4.s2 Desdemona being comforted by Emilia, Desdemona trying to recover her relationship with Othello + wedding sheets scene
EPISODE
“Lay on my bed my wedding sheets” - D to E
“I am a child to chiding” - D to E
“The Moor’s abused by some most villainous knave” - E to I, D about O
“his unkindness may defeat my life, but never taint my love.” - D to I, E about O
“I cannot say whore it does abhor me now I speak the word” - D to I,E
a4.s3 Willow scene, and Emilia and Desdemona discussing men
EPISODE
“Sing willow, willow, willow” - D singing to E
“Dos thou in conscience think - tell me, Emilia - that there be women do abuse their husbands in such gross kind?”- D to E
“Beshrew me if i would do such a wrong for the whole world.” - E to D
“But i do think it is their husbands’ faults if wives do fall.” - E to D
a5.s1 Roderigo dying, and Cassio attacked
PLOT
“Every way makes my gain.” - I to R
“He hath a daily beauty in his life that makes me ugly.” - I to R about C
“[Iago from behind wounds Cassio in the leg, and exit]”
“Strumpet, I come. Forth of my heart those charms, thine eyes, are blotted; thy bed lust-stained shall with lust’s blood be spotted.” - O to himself, thinking about I killing C
“O damned Iago! O inhuman dog!” - R about I to I
“This is the night that either makes me, or fordoes me quite.” - I (aside)
