By Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom, Neil Heims PH.D.
The intriguing new sequence that all started in Fall 2004 with Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Henry IV continues... "Negative air of secrecy is a wierd endowment; Iago represents it uniquely in Shakespeare, and so much literary incarnations of it due to the fact that owe a lot to Iago." - Harold Bloom each one variation within the Harold Bloom Shakespeare sequence will contain the total textual content of the play, with editorial revisions and observation via Harold Bloom.
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You shall observe him, And his own courses will denote him so That I may save my speech: do but go after, And mark how he continues. Lodovico, the emissary sent by the Venetian senate to recall Othello, has just seen unbelievable things. Othello, in a confused passion, has struck Desdemona and spoken of her in sexually abusive language. ” The irony is that he is speaking of the change in Othello to Iago, the engineer of that change. ” Iago responds with the same rhetorical trick he used on Othello, presenting himself as reluctant to speak a truth that might reflect badly on the person of whom he speaks, only overcoming his reluctance for the sake of his interlocutor.
Desdemona: That death’s unnatural that kills for loving. Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip? Key Passages in Othello Some bloody passion shakes your very frame: These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope, They do not point on me. Peace, and be still! Othello: Desdemona: I will so. What’s the matter? Othello: That handkerchief which I so loved and gave thee Thou gavest to Cassio. No, by my life and soul! Desdemona: Send for the man, and ask him. Sweet soul, take heed, Othello: Take heed of perjury; thou art on thy deathbed.
This he knew, but to entertain the Audience with something new and surprising, against common sense, and Nature, he would pass upon us a close, dissembling, false, insinuating rascal, instead of an open-hearted, frank, plaindealing Souldier, a character constantly worn by them for some thousands of years in the World.