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Othello demands to see the handkerchief that was his first gift to Desdemona – obviously, Desdemona makes excuses as she has mysteriously lost it She tries to change the subject by repeating her request that Cassio gets his job back – this just makes Othello even madder! Act 3 Scene 4
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• Iago swears to serve Othello, who instructs him to kill Cassio.
“Within three days let me hear thee say that Cassio’s not alive”
• Othello vows to kill Desdemona himself.“Damn her, lewd minx!”
“I will withdraw to furnish me with some swift means of death for the fair devil.”
• He appoints Iago to be his lieutenant.
Act 3 Scene 3
Some 250 lines later…
• Othello demands to see the handkerchief that was his first gift to Desdemona – obviously, Desdemona makes excuses as she has mysteriously lost it
• She tries to change the subject by repeating her request that Cassio gets his job back – this just makes Othello even madder!
Act 3 Scene 4
Act 3 Scene 4• We meet Cassio’s prostitute lover Bianca
– he makes excuses for not seeing her all week
• He asks Bianca to copy this rather nice handkerchief he found in his room
• Bianca is jealous, suggesting that it is a gift from another woman – she agrees and then Cassio shoos her away so that Othello doesn’t see him with Bianca (meeting with a prostitute in front of your boss would not do his job hopes any good!
Act 4 Scene 1• Iago wants go give Othello some “proof”
that Cassio and Desdemona are having an affair
• Iago gets Othello to hide while he talks to Cassio – about Bianca.
• This turns into typical lads bragging talk – Cassio using derogatory language to describe “her” saying how crazy “she” is for him (and Othello assumes the “her” is Desdemona!)
• Cassio: “I marry her! What? A customer? Prithee bear me some charity to my wit.”