Othello: Act III - Iago's Manipulation and Othello's Fall - Prof. Castillo Martín, Apuntes de Teatro

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Othello

act III

Francisco Javier Castillo

Othello

act III

Scene I

• (A street in Cyprus, close to Othello’s residence)
• It is now morning and Cassio has engaged a troupe of musicians to serenade Othello and Desdemona, but Othello does not like the music since he sends a clown to pay the musicians to leave.
• The role of the clown.
• Cassio takes this opportunity to ask the clown to convey a message to Emilia. Emilia comes to tell Cassio that Desdemona has already begun to intercede with Othello on his behalf.

Scene 3: The garden of the castle

This is the central scene of the play. Desdemona and Emilia assure Cassio that all will be well between him and Othello, but when Cassio sees Othello and Iago approaching, he leaves. He feels full of shame.

Iago does not miss this opportunity to suggest to Othello that Cassio’s leaving may have another significance.

The Moor wants to know what Iago thinks, but he is very evasive in his

replies to Othello and that is how the Moor began to be poisoned by Iago’s lies.

Othello begins to doubt,

the hero begins to fall

Haply, for I am black And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have, or for I am declined Into the vale of years,--yet that's not much-- She's gone. I am abused; and my relief Must be to loathe her.

Desdemona drops the handkerchief, Emilia takes it and

Iago is going to use it as a proof

Othello’s farewell

O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war! And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dead clamours counterfeit, Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone!

I think my wife be honest and think she is not; I think that thou art just and think thou art not. I'll have some proof. Her name, that was as fresh As Dian's visage, is now begrimed and black As mine own face.

Scene 4

Desdemona is busy and desperate searching

her handkerchief, and she cannot find it.

Othello asks for the handkerchief, and she lies

saying that it was not lost, and tries to change

the subject to that of Cassio being again

Othello’s lieutenant. This intensifies Othello’s

anger. He is now convinced of his wife’s guilt.