Shakespearean Moor

Usage examples of othello.

Contents 1 The Great Taos Bank Robbery 1 The Navajo Who Had So Many Friends He Couldn't Get No Wire Strung 2 The Very Heart of Our Country 16 The Mountain on the Guardrail at Exit 164B 3 We All Fall Down 29 The Messenger Birds 4 The Conversion of Cletus Xywanda 51 The Apache Who Wouldn't Be Missed 5 The Hunt for the Lost American 61 How Quemado Got Quemado 6 Las Trampas 90 Blackjack Ketchum and the Sixteen Faithful Bartenders 7 Othello in Union County 111 The Committee and the Mule Deer 8 Quijote in Rio Arriba County 128 Keeping Secrets from the Russians 9 Mr.

Othello (testing whether she has given it to Cassio, as Iago said) asks for it, and the nervous Desdemona, forced to admit she doesn't have it on her person, is afraid to say she has lost it.

Othello, trying desperately to cling to the certainty that he did the right thing, boldly proclaims he killed her for her infidelity, and now Emilia comes into her own.

Of course, if you ask me, the real tragedy in Othello is that he didn't have OJ's dream team to get him off later.

SA man, that SA squad leader who after an action in January had been promoted platoon leader, that actor, athlete, lover, metaphysician, and platoon leader who on and without occasion could grind his teeth, that is, delve penetratingly and inescapably into last things, that grinder who would have liked to play Othello but had to play the reindeer when Jenny danced the Snow Queen, for one reason or another that SA man, grinder, and actor, even before leaving for the Schwerin Stadttheater where he had been engaged as jeune premier, took to drink.

A war meetin', in fact, without gas, would be suthin' like the play of HAMLET with the part of OTHELLO omitted.

There would have been no Furies for Oedipus, no disaster for Othello, Romeo, Pericles of Tyre, Laon and Cythna, if it were only agreed to let sleeping dogs lie, and mind one's own business.

It is easy, then, in fancy, to people these silent canals with plumed gallants and fair ladies--with Shylocks in gaberdine and sandals, venturing loans upon the rich argosies of Venetian commerce--with Othellos and Desdemonas, with Iagos and Roderigos--with noble fleets and victorious legions returning from the wars.

He was standing musing on a street corner, with his left hand on his hip, the thumb of his right supporting his chin, face bowed and frowning, slouch hat pulled down over his forehead--imagining himself to be Othello or some such character, and imagining that the passing crowd marked his tragic bearing and were awestruck.