Othello

William Shakespeare, David Mann

• Publisher: Pulp the Classics
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781843443780
• Topic: Literatur
• Subtopic: Altertumswissenschaften

He's a bardass brother with the love of a fine woman. That is until some cloven hoofed honky starts talking crazy about variously hued sheep tupping the hell outta each other! You gotta pity the fool who gets shafted by the green eyed monster. Let's hope Othello can work out who to trust before it's too late...

ACT III, SCENE III

Cyprus. The garden of the castle.

Enter DESDEMONA, CASSIO, and Emilia.

DESDEMONA

Be thou assured, good Cassio, I will do

All my abilities in thy behalf.

EMILIA

Good madam, do, I warrant it grieves my husband

As if the cause were his.

DESDEMONA

O, that’s an honest fellow. Do not doubt, Cassio,

But I will have my lord and you again

As friendly as you were.

CASSIO

Bounteous madam,

Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio,

He’s never anything but your true servant.

DESDEMONA

I know’t, I thank you. You do love my lord,

You have known him long, and be you well assured

He shall in strangeness stand no farther off

Than in a politic distance.

CASSIO

Ay, but, lady,

That policy may either last so long,

Or feed upon such nice and waterish diet,

Or breed itself so out of circumstance,

That, I being absent and my place supplied,

My general will forget my love and service.

DESDEMONA

Do not doubt that: before Emilia here

I give thee warrant of thy place. Assure thee,

If I do vow a friendship I’ll perform it

To the last article. My lord shall never rest,

I’ll watch him tame and talk him out of patience,

His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift,

I’ll intermingle everything he does

With Cassio’s suit: therefore be merry, Cassio,

For thy solicitor shall rather die

Than give thy cause away.

Enter OTHELLO and IAGO.

EMILIA

Madam, here comes my lord.

CASSIO

Madam, I’ll take my leave.

DESDEMONA

Why, stay and hear me speak.

CASSIO

Madam, not now; I am very ill at ease,

Unfit for mine own purposes.

DESDEMONA

Well, do your discretion.

Exit Cassio.

IAGO

Ha, I like not that.

OTHELLO

What dost thou say?

IAGO

Nothing, my lord; or if – I know not what.

OTHELLO

Was not that Cassio parted from my wife?

IAGO

Cassio, my lord? No, sure, I cannot think it

That he would steal away so guilty-like

Seeing you coming.

OTHELLO

I do believe ’twas he.

DESDEMONA

How now, my lord?

I have been talking with a suitor here,

A man that languishes in your displeasure.

OTHELLO

Who is’t you mean?

DESDEMONA

Why, your lieutenant, Cassio. Good my lord,

If I have any grace or power to move you

His present reconciliation take:

For if he be not one that truly loves you,

That errs in ignorance and not in cunning,

I have no judgement in an honest face.

I prithee, call him back.

OTHELLO

Went he hence now?

DESDEMONA

Yes, faith, so humbled

That he hath left part of his grief with me

To suffer with him. Good love, call him back.

OTHELLO

Not now, sweet Desdemon, some other time.

DESDEMONA

But shall’t be shortly?

OTHELLO

The sooner, sweet, for you.

DESDEMONA

Shall’t be tonight, at supper?

OTHELLO

No, not tonight.

DESDEMONA

Tomorrow dinner then?

OTHELLO

I shall not dine at home.

I meet the captains at the citadel.

DESDEMONA

Why then, tomorrow night, or Tuesday morn;

On Tuesday noon, or night; on Wednesday morn!

I prithee name the time, but let it not

Exceed three days: i’faith, he’s penitent,

And yet his trespass, in our common reason

– Save that they say the wars must make examples

Out of their best – is not, almost, a fault

T’incur a private check. When shall he come?

Tell me, Othello. I wonder in my soul

What you would ask me that I should deny

Or stand so mamm’ring on? What, Michael Cassio

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